Talk:Turin

Hazelnuts

The article currently mentions hazelnut chocolate in passing with a link to gianduiotto. Being responsible for Nutella deserves a bit more coverage, though, and (with appropriate sourcing) there should be at least some mention of

(i) Turin's importance as a center or the center of Continental chocolate production by the late 18th century;

(ii) the way Britain's blockade of Napoleonic France & its allies in the early 19th century wrecked that by limiting access to South American cocoa;

(iii) the resulting experimentation with fillers that lasted until Caffarel's creation of in the 1850s and was also responsible for Central and Northern Europe's hazelnut-heavy form of nougat, which is now frequently made without any cocoa at all; and

(iv) the renewed importance of this history and Piedmontese industry during Britain's blockades of Europe in World War II, which led to Nutella.

 — LlywelynII 20:30, 16 June 2025 (UTC)