Do you ever get tired of eating chocolate?
I still like chocolate. I like to eat it too everyday. Of course, I do for festivals like Christmas. It is not that I eat only Lindt chocolate. Sometimes I eat chocolate from Russia or China or Italy just to know what the others are doing and see if they have a new feeling which is interesting.
What is the most crucial element of making chocolate?
The cocoa bean. If you don’t have a good bean, you cannot make a good chocolate. You can add the best sugar but it doesn’t work. It is the place that it comes from — Africa or South America or Asia, they all have different tastes.
Is there a correlation between your personality and the type of chocolate you enjoy?
Yes, otherwise everybody would eat the same chocolate. You know I work at the airport in Dubai also, and people from Switzerland, Germany, Austria… from anywhere… they come, and say I want milk, I want dark, I want white. Sometimes, out of curiosity I offer them something else and they don’t want it, they cannot change their mind. I think there is a good chance of correlation but not many people have asked me that question.
What is the most favourite form of chocolate in the world?
Milk chocolate.
(This story appears in the 30 April, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)