GHENT, Belgium – Belgians are crazy for chocolate. They spread chocolate paste on bread for breakfast, pour chocolate sauce over ice cream for dessert – ...

Whenever I think of Belgium, I recall digging into a dish of mussels while seated on a sunny square in Brussels, in the shadow of a lacy medieval spire. My waiter bragged, “In Belgium, we eat as ...

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — A huge Belgian chocolate factory has halted production after detecting salmonella in a batch of chocolates. The Barry Callebaut company said Thursday that its plant in Wieze ...

Belgium invented the praline in 1912 and soon became known for making the best chocolates in the world. But 100 years on, the supremacy of local chocolatiers is under threat from international ...

Since inventing the praline more than 100 years ago, Belgium has cultivated a £3.5bn chocolate industry that accounted for 9 per cent of Belgium’s food sales last year. Belgian chocolate, one ...

A set of special stamps that smell and taste of chocolate goes on sale in Belgium on Monday. More than 500,000 stamps have been printed on special paper imbued with the aroma of cocoa and covered ...