{"id":19893,"date":"2022-11-01T21:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=19893"},"modified":"2023-01-07T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T09:02:35","slug":"the-salon-du-chocolat-2022-offered-fashion-and-a-chocolate-bugatti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2022\/11\/the-salon-du-chocolat-2022-offered-fashion-and-a-chocolate-bugatti\/","title":{"rendered":"The Salon du Chocolat 2022 Offered Fashion and a Chocolate Bugatti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What do you do with 400 kilos (881 pounds) of chocolate? You build a Bugatti Grand Prix type 35, of course! The Bugatti was one of the numerous creative chocolate sculptures at the Salon du Chocolat<\/a>\u2019s 27th<\/sup>\u00a0edition in Paris at Porte de Versailles<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The event is always scheduled for the last weekend in October. When I arrived, I headed past the chocolate sculptures, the chocolate tastings, the bean-to-bar stands and straight to the fashion parade<\/a> of fifteen chocolate-covered dresses and costumes. The announcer was loud and clear, so the event had begun. With two afternoon start times, I would still see everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the world’s largest event dedicated to cocoa, I found the perfect birthday gift from Ecuador (only three ingredients: cacao paste, cacao butter and cacao pulp from Myawki.com).\u00a0I tasted the perfect Christmas gift, a chocolate cake from the Basque region (La Maison Pari\u00e8s<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After eating his delicious sorbets regularly at La Glacerie<\/a> near the department store BHV, I finally saw the owner, Meilleur Ouvrier de France David Wesma\u00ebl<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I left the event, its fashion parades and the chocolate tastings (having barely skimmed the surface of 21 countries and 200 exhibitors), I saw the largest chocolate sculpture at the event this year. Jean-Luc Decluzeau<\/a>\u2019s Bugatti at three-quarters scale, which took 380-man hours to build.\u00a0\u00a0No Bugatti tasting allowed. The car is headed to the Mus\u00e9e du Chocolat de Colmar in the east of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I reached the door, many of the pastry chefs were closing out the day\u2019s event with a glass of champagne in their hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Content with my short 3-hour visit of skimming the chocolate surface, I was already setting my goal for the 2023 salon: taste the champagnes and wines that go with dark chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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