Chocolate Love
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 4:45AM I took a short trip to the chocolate festival yesterday in the freezing cold. This week-long celebration dedicated completely to chocolate (good guess!), is in it's eighth year and takes place this year in Piazza Della Repubblica. To differentiate, this ChocoFest is formally named Fiera del Cioccolato Artigianale, or "Artisan Chocolate Fair." These chocolatiers want you to know that what they're shelling out are no ordinary sweets!
The need to point out that it's artisan chocolate is almost useless. Looking around the festival, I could immediately tell that this was not run-of-the-mill chocolate I'm used to.
This is an entire replica of the city center of Florence-fashioned from chocolate.
Chocolate cleats and tools! Everything you can imagine made into chocolate form.
At this point, we were absolutely frozen solid and found hot chocolate. Note: hot chocolate at Fiera del Cioccolato Artigianale does not mean Hershey's hot chocolate, powdered and combined with hot water. It means this:
Hot chocolate /hat choc-o-late/ (noun): straight up melted, lukewarm dark chocolate with whipped cream and hazelnut/nutella-like shavings on top.
Beat that!
Reader Comments (1)
Being in culinary school and currently taking my chocolates class, this may be the coolest thing ever. I now have a whole new respect for chocolatiers! Happy travels!