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CioccolaTÒ 2006. Great chocolatey surprises.
24 January 2006
A night of passion. Intense, delicious, full of emotion. How can you possibly refuse such a tantalizing invitation? An invitation to all gourmets to visit CioccolaTÒ 2006, the chocolate festival to be held in Turin from March 24 to April 2.
The first major innovation of 2006 will be then “Notte Calda”, or Hot Night. A night of passion. Intense, delicious, full of emotion. This will be a never-ending night imbued with the flavour of cocoa: from dusk till dawn in the centre of Turin, you will be able to savour hot chocolate to the rhythm of music and sounds that will fill the streets and squares.
But not only, the novice bards of the Holden School will set up stages in the most suggestive corners of Turin to narrate tales written especially for this occasion.
The novelties of CioccolaTÒ 2006 don't end here. The festival – which this year will take place in Piazza San Carlo, also known as the “drawing room of Turin” - is brimming with events designed to explore the world of chocolate and unveil the secrets of its countless qualities. This is the scope of the Cocoa Spring: an interactive museum with a plantation, equipment, and machinery for explaining the process that transforms cocoa beans into a bar of chocolate.
As for each and every year, CioccolaTÒ is also a sampling of quality, culture, art, and literature. Even the collaboration with Slow Food continues to offer Turin memorable moments with great chefs and master chocolate makers from all over the world, while the evolutionary rapport between chocolate and culture is represented through the tales presented by the Holden School.
Following the success of last year’s competition, CioccolaTÒ 2006 will once again organize the greatest Chocolate Bake-off in Italy: CioccolaTorta. Thousands of recipes will be tasted, but only the few winners of the competition will then challenge a special guest.
And now that Turin has been nominated World Design City 2008, even chocolate will do its fair share to pay homage to this title. Piazza San Carlo will be the setting where master chocolate chefs will exhibit their works based on the creations of Turin food designers. And, for the second consecutive year, there will be a competition limited to the students of the European Design Institute.
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