http://hometownheroesrun.com/wp-content/uploads/html2wp/abruzi.php As luck would have it, the 19th Salon du Chocolat started on October 30 and lasts until Sunday. We headed to the exposition center at Porte de Versailles and even before 10 AM, the subways was jammed. We braced ourselves for a huge crowd at the chocolate event. We also noticed that the crowd was quite young, which puzzled us a bit – like not children but teenagers and young adults. When we arrived at the entrance, it became very clear. There were two other events going on simultaneously: the Autumn Faire and a computer gaming show. Our spirits lifted as we thought most of our companion subway riders were headed elsewhere. We purchased our tickets, headed to the Expo, and for a few minutes could walk from booth to booth without being hit with a backpack, jostled, run over by a stroller, or stepped on. The show covered two floors of pavilion 5. The 1er etage had booths for chocolate providers, chocolatiers, and pâtissiers. In addition, there were  providers of Madagascar vanilla, a provider of chocolate teas and beer, Grand Marnier, a book store, a pastry school, even Indonesia, Tokyo, and Ghana. It was billed as an international show, but the emphasis was clearly French. Just as we walked in, there was a
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huge airplane made from chocolate – sponsored by Asianna air lines.  At 11:00, Mike went to the Choco Demo and watched Chef Laurent Duchene, meilleur ouvrier de France Pâtissiers, share his method and recipe for sucettes, the latest rage in Paris.
French lollypops or sucette
It was similar to a lollipop with a ganache center, various flavorings, and various coatings. By now the crowds were thickening, we had so many itty bitty tastes of chocolate that we were soon on a sugar high. The Rez-de-chaussee level was termed la Confiserie filled with candies, waffles, hot chocolate, spices and teas, cake decorating items, various kinds of nougat, dried fruit, marzipan, ice cream, sorbet, and even chocolate cognac! There was one cupcake vendor, but it did not even
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interest the Parisians, who were all about those sucettes. Everyone was walking around with one! A cooking school, L’Atelier des Sens, was demonstrating and teaching volunteers how to sauté fois gras and make a chocolate balsamic vinegar sauce. I watched one young lady who had obviously never been in a kitchen. She was trying to stir the sauce and use her spatula on the fois gras like it was her eating utensils. Her chocolate burned, the instructor walked over and poured a good bit of red wine in to try to save it – or at least make it liquid and pourable. Today is a holiday in France,
Crayons made of chocolate, as well.
many businesses were closed. Since it was raining most of the day, parents and grandparents packed up the family and went to the Salon du Chocolate. Naturally, on all that sugar, even the usually well-behaved French children got a little out of control.
Even a chocolate dress!
After purchasing some vanilla beans and powdered vanilla beans, we headed across town to pick up some more colorant from G. Datou, for macarons when we get home.
