Chocolate Show next Saturday in Angers

Chocolat Show, a wordplay because in French "chaud " means hot, will take place, for its 5th edition at Les Greniers Saint-Jean, next Saturday. From 10.00 am to 07.00 pm, a chocolate-flavoured village will host craftsmen coming from Angers and from the Loire valley in order to promote chocolate consumption among the Angers public. The period is important for the chocolate trade because Eastern is coming up and it's the most important opportunity (more than New Year) to eat, under numerous ways, chocolate. 

The Angers inhabitants are found of that fair. In 2011, more than 2 500 visitors came to look and taste what pastry chefs, chocolate makers and cookers designed about the uses of chocolate. For example, a Angers cooker will display a new recipe : the devilfish with chocolate! Craftsmen will sculpt works in chocolate and a jury will choose the most remarkable piece.

Angers city counts a lot of chocolate shops La Petite Marquise, Petit Laurent, Benoit Chocolats and, chocolate markers like Guisabel The aim of the event is to collect funds for caritative purposes. (Credit pictures Chocolat Show)