Lindt Home of Chocolate

This guide to the Lindt Home of Chocolate in Zurich opens beside the nine-meter fountain and admits upfront that the story behind it is a legend even Lindt's own historians can't confirm. It follows Rodolphe Lindt, a twenty-four-year-old chocolate maker in Bern in December of eighteen seventy-nine, running a new stirring machine while trying to solve the grittiness that plagued every chocolate of his era. You'll hear the three competing accounts of what happened to that machine over one weekend, and why the company itself won't say which one is true. Watch the fountain's pipework as you listen; it traces back to the very machine at the center of the story.