Head over heels for food of love

It’s Valentine’s Weekend, another great excuse for chocoholics to indulge. But for serious commitment to the cocoa bean, Belgians are the ones to beat.

THE 17th-century French nobleman and renowned writer François de la Rochefoucauld once said: “Love the chocolate deeply without complexes or guilt, because I remind you; without a touch of madness, there is no reasonable man” — and I think I know what he means.

The mad craving for chocolate is as constant and everlasting a phenomenon as love itself. That seems to be the belief that runs through the veins of all full-blooded Belgians. Their love affair with chocolate began back in the 17th century when the Spanish ruled this part of the world.