NOT JUST ANOTHER MUSEUM

This morning I woke up, had my daily cup of hot chocolate with breakfast (and another one for good luck), wrote a paper, and then went to THE CHOCOLATE MUSEUM!!!  Who knew there was such a thing?!  This was the museum for me.  We learned all about the history of hot chocolate (4,000 years old, hot chocolate making), and the more recent (only the past 200 years) making of solid chocolate.  Then for the best part: a demonstration complete with lots and lots of free samples.

Chocolate bars of the world

Theoretically these are supposed to be chocolate people.. I think they look more like really pointy rotten teeth

Our master chocolatier.

Hard at work, filling chocolates with hazelnut praline

The finished product!

A chocolate nativity scene (the white thing on the ground is Jesus)

At the end you got a hot chocolate, and had your pick of six flavors:aztec recipe, spanish recipe, speculoos, hazelnut, milk, or dark.  I went with spanish which had cinnamon, cloves, and pimenton (good choice)

This was not any ordinary hot chocolate.  It was a cube of flavored chocolate (fudge-like), on a toothpick, and you stirred it into the hot milk they gave you!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The view up my street

Happy Holidays from Rue des Martyrs!!