Agrifood Chain Roundtable meeting 1

The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826; third President of the USA)

So noble a confession more than nectar & ambrosia, the true food of the gods

Dr Etienne Bachot(1610-1687; French physician)

Nowhere else has nature compressed such a store of the most valuable nutrient into such a small space as it has with the cocoa bean

Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859; German naturalist & traveler)

Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935; Portuguese poet)