Robert Linxe is the founder of La Maison du Chocolat, one of the most highly-regarded (both the man and the shop) chocolatiers in the world. Many consider his obsession with ganache to be a major contributing factor in elevating it, and French chocolate, to the upper echelons of the world’s chocolate elite. On Friday, May 17th (2002) I spent a couple of hours in La Maison du Chocolat on Madison Avenue attending a “parcours pratique” or a guided tasting hosted by Robert Linxe himself.