Maison en chocolat

Today Allison and I visited a house made of chocolate. Talk about sublime! As part of a promotional campaign for a new product, Nestle constructed a chocolate house in Parc de la Villette (a park in north-east Paris) and it only exists for five days. The house was actually made of wood and then painted in chocolate (which they have to recoat everyday), but you can definitely smell the chocolate the second you approach.

We were probably the oldest people there who weren’t parents, and one worker who was giving a demonstration of how to make chocolate jokingly asked how old we were and Allison responded by saying “Nous sommes etudiantes americaines” (We are American students) and he laughed and said something like OK then it makes sense and gave us samples of the chocolate.

We also got free samples of chocolate mousse, there was a station where we could make little mice with chocolate mousse bodies, M&M eyes, almond ears and a chocolate bar tail. We definitely felt silly and childish, but it was lots of fun and a great escape, as well as another reason to gorge ourselves in sweets like every day. But talk about random experiences… a chocolate house in Paris!

The chocolate workshed attached to the chocolate house!