Switzerlandโs place in chocolate is INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL, not agricultural: โ cacao grows nowhere near it. Conching, milk chocolate made with condensed milk, hydraulic pressing and the factories of Vevey, Bern, Zรผrich and Basel turned an imported bean into an export, and the dairy behind the milk is the Swiss part of the story.
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What is recorded
Cacao does not grow in Switzerland. The Swiss contribution is industrial and technical โ conching, milk chocolate made with condensed milk, and the factories built on Alpine dairy โ and the raw material was and is imported, historically from colonial plantations.documented