Léa Chauveau and Alexandre Cousin opened in 2019 their first bakery in Beauvoir-en-Lyons, in the department of Seine-Maritime. The town of 600 inhabitants was then deprived of shops and fresh bread.
Three bakeries, including one franchised entrusted to their first apprentice, and 25 employees later, the young couple has a new project in mind: to launch a chocolate factory, La Cacaoterie, which is due to open in December 2021 just opposite their second. bakery in Forges-les-Eaux.
Journey to chocolate lands
Léa and Alexandre are always committed to working with quality products. So they wanted to select their beans themselves. The budding chocolatiers therefore packed their bags for South America. Direction Caracas, Venezuela, to learn how to choose, roast, conch beans, and meet local producers.
For this document signed Laura Lequertier, Jérôme Mars and Hélène Amétis, the magazine “1:15 p.m. Sunday“(Twitter, #1:15 p.m.) accompanied young passionate bakers and entrepreneurs, who have never traveled further than Italy, in this real adventure on the other side of the Atlantic, towards chocolate lands …
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