The multiple uses of chocolate

• When you miss breakfast, two squares stuffed into a croissant under the mini-grill at work make great pain au chocolat.
• From Jeff de Bruges, when you spent one week in Paris without your wife and you need to soothe hearts once you’re back.
• From Juliette et Chocolat, le traditionnel à l’ancienne, to give yourself indigestion because you couldn’t stop early enough.
• Dark and semi-sweet, to make yourself happy (you’ve heard, haven't you, about the endorphin burst and how indispensable to happiness chocolate is?).
• To survive hunger pangs when you’re in Portugal, kilometres away from any food, and the only restaurant you find is closed for siesta.
• From Kinder, with a little toy inside, to make children ecstatic (even when they’re 30).
• To discover that lavender is gorgeous, especially when cocooned in dark chocolate from Odile Chocolat.
• From Nutella, in a glass container, to make anything taste good, but also, to build your collection of drinking glasses, as is apparently well-known by every French person.
• From Godiva, wrapped in beautiful wispy paper, with a card attached, as a surprise from your parents on your birthday: to remind you that you are loved. The best kind.