We, the team at the Chocolate Museum and Gerda the Chocolate Girl, are delighted to tell you exciting stories about the Chocolate Museum Cologne on this blog. We'll take you behind the scenes of one of Germany's most visited museums and give you insights that regular museum visitors don't get to see.
Gerda is the chocolate girl from Cologne's Südstadt district. This series of entertaining stories about the Cologne Chocolate Museum, the history of chocolate and the cathedral city of Cologne is all about her. The stories provide an insight into the Chocolate Museum.
Not all chocolate is the same. You can't just mix together any old cocoa and sugar and sell it as chocolate. There are significant differences between types of chocolate: when do we refer to it as milk chocolate, dark chocolate, fine chocolate or white chocolate? Questions like these are regulated.
Chocolate made from camel's milk - it may sound unusual at first, but it actually exists. Al Nassma is the world's first camel milk chocolate.
We love it - chocolate. White, milk or dark chocolate, pure or with nuts and sultanas, as a bar, as a hollow figure or as a drink. Very few of us can imagine our everyday lives without chocolate.
Not all cocoa is the same. Just as chocolate is not just chocolate. There is a wide variety of flavors. From dark to milk to the most unusual varieties such as chili flavored chocolate. There are also different cocoa plants.
