The Hotel Chocolate Chief Executive
The Hotel Chocolate Chief Executive Angus Thirwell, the Hotel Chocolat chief executive, says the only hot chocolate available used to be terrible – basically a “sugar-based powder that looked brown”. “You put a couple of teaspoons of that into a cup, poured on some boiling water and created what passed as hot chocolate for many decades in the UK. “Once people taste what can be possible, it’s synonymous with the journey from instant coffee to drinking proper coffee. It’s getting back...