The story of Biscotto: the duck who forgot he had a factory

Once upon a time, in a quiet little street near the centre of Brussels, there was a duck not quite like the others. His name is Biscotto. He has a sweet tooth, he is a little clumsy, often unpredictable, and above all, his memory plays tricks on him. It is even said that it took him almost a year to realise he owned a giant-cookie factory right in the heart of the city. A rather hazy awakening Biscotto doesn't really remember how it all began. One morning, he woke up with his feathers covered in flour and the smell of melted butter all through his burrow. Before him stood an entire factory, its ovens still warm, and a pile of recipes scribbled in an old, half-nibbled notebook. "Well, would you look at that, I've got a factory," he is said to have mumbled, before going back to bed for another three hours. Ever since that day, Biscotto has regularly forgotten important details (where the keys are, what day it is, whether he has already eaten), but he has never, ever forgotten a single cookie recipe. A factory that runs in spite of him Perhaps that is the most astonishing part. Despite his memory lapses and his Sunday-night jitters, the factory keeps running. Cookies XXL come out of the ovens, generous and crunchy, the Cookie Bowl Chaperon Rouge waits patiently for its drizzle of raspberry, and nobody can really explain how such a scatterbrained duck manages to run such a precise business. The answer is simple: when it comes to cookies, Biscotto never gets it wrong. It is as if his brain stuffs everything else into a drawer that won't quite shut, but keeps the recipes safely locked away in a vault. Bienvenue chez Biscotto Even today, Biscotto sometimes wanders around his own factory wondering what he came in for, until he spots a tray of freshly baked cookies and suddenly remembers exactly why he is there. It is this slightly chaotic, slightly tender story that gave rise to "Bienvenue chez Biscotto": a factory like no other, run by a duck who forgets a great many things, except what really matters. Flavour, a love of treats, and the wish to make people happy.