David Rosenthal: belief

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…Which is a funny misnomer. Dark chocolate. It’s just chocolate. It’s chocolate that doesn’t have milk, so we needed to retronym it something. We needed to come up with a name and we’re like, oh, it’s dark chocolate. Okay, it’s chocolate that’s chocolate and sugar but doesn’t have milk. Okay, anyway, dark chocolate. What is milk chocolate then? We need to flash back 35 years before Milton Hershey sells his first caramel company. This is before he started the Hershey chocolate company, 1866. Henri Nestlé, David, to give some credence to your comment, is researching infant feeding as a means to solve infant mortality. He invents a new type of food for babies who are unable to breastfeed there in Switzerland. Remember, at this point in time, something like one in five babies died before their first birthday, so infant mortality is a massive global problem. He’s researching alternative infant feeding methods. Milk would quickly turn rancid, so there was this question of how do you keep milk fresh. He eventually solved it. It is hard to condense milk without burning it, but he figured out this method of using an air pump at low temperatures to concentrate a milk powder, and then he added a bunch of cereal, a proprietary cereal mix he created. This is effectively the first baby formula. In 1867, he demonstrated that a baby could drink this formula that he made, rehydrated, and it was effectively a miracle to keep babies alive. Totally. This is one of many mind-blowing things in the research that I learned. Nestlé was a baby formula company. That’s how it started. Totally. It’s great. It’s in the same way that Hermes, the Birkin bag, was a bag for baby bottles.…

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