Mouthful of goodness: The finest of artisanal chocolate and cheese in India

If there's one thing Arun Viswanathan understands, it's how nostalgia and food trends help sell chocolates

When it comes to artisanal cheese, India is still a young market, says globe-trotting cheese expert Aditya Raghavan. But, “a niche market in India can also be quite big,” he says. And thanks to cheesemakers like the people at Bengaluru’s Begum Victoria, where double-creamed brie is lovingly flipped for 21 days straight, this niche market is steadily growing. The craving to break away from imported cheese out of supermarket freezers has also expressed itself in India’s reaction to gourmet chocolates, which explains why Chennai-based Cocoatrait has about 190 subscriptions for boxes of fine chocolates curated by chocolatier L Nitin Chordia.