Lotte Andersson

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About Lotte Andersson

Since the last 17 years Lotte is supporting the chocolate industry, serving customers from the artisans to the larger manufacturers. She is managing the Barry Callebaut Gourmet Sales, Service and Technical support for Barry Callebaut, first in Ontario and now as the Commercial Gourmet Director for Canada Additionally to her commercial role she is also promoting the company, by organizing demos and events for the pastry and baking industry focusing on the imported brands, the Finest Belgian Chocolate, Callebaut and the French Chocolate brand, Cacao Barry as well as the domestic brands Mona Lisa Decorations, Van Leer, Gertrude Hawk and American Almond. Lotte left her native Sweden to study Culinary Art in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu. She ended up staying in Paris for three years, doing her apprenticeship at Le Pré Catelan and Pavillon Elysée, both Michelin star restaurants owned by Gaston Le Notre. After meeting her future French/Argentinian husband in Paris, they decided to immigrate to Canada together. Lotte worked for Jean Pierre Curtat at Le Manoir Rouville Campbell in Mont St Hilaire, Québec, for 2 ½ years before the adventure took them to Toronto where Lotte landed a job, working for John Higgins at the fine dining restaurant, Chiaros at The King Edward Hotel for 3 years. While her kids were young, Lotte catered private events and worked as a freelance chef at Nestle Canada for several years before she was hired as the full time Corporate Chef for Nestle Foodservice. Lotte stayed at Nestle for 5 years where some of her tasks were to develop new recipes, organize customer "Ideation Session", food styling and consumer tasting panels. Then a new opportunity presented itself. She was offered to go back to the gourmet food world, but now move out of the kitchen and enter the sales and marketing world as the Sales Manager for Barry Callebaut Gourmet in Ontario. Lotte speaks Swedish, English, French and Spanish