Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers (32 page)

In Switzerland, Rodolphe Lindt developed a new technique to grind the cocoa beans.

(© CHOCOLADEFABRIKEN LINDT & SPRÜNGLI AG)

A nineteenth-century chocolate conching machine, which made chocolate smooth and velvety. (MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY)

Henri Nestlé, circa 1875. Nestlé created milk powder and mass produced a new infant formula.

(NESTLÉ HISTORICAL ARCHIVES, VEVEY)

In the 1870s, Henri Nestlé’s neighbor, Daniel Peter, began experiments adding milk to chocolate at his factory in Vevey.

(NESTLÉ HISTORICAL ARCHIVES, VEVEY)

Milton Snavely Hershey, age 16, as an apprentice in an ice cream parlor in 1873.

(COURTESY OF HERSHEY COMMUNITY ARCHIVES, HERSHEY, PA)

Milton Hershey briefly attended a Quaker School House near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (COURTESY OF HERSHEY COMMUNITY ARCHIVES, HERSHEY, PA)

An early Easter egg advertisement.

(COURTESY OF CADBURY)

The village green at the Cadbury brothers model village at Bournville.

(COURTESY OF CADBURY)

Staff play croquet on the womens’ grounds at Bournville, 1896.

(COURTESY OF CADBURY)

Lily pond in the womens’ grounds. (COURTESY OF CADBURY)

The girls’ dining room at Bournville, 1902. (COURTESY OF CADBURY)

Horses and the first petrol vans at Bournville. (COURTESY OF CADBURY)