Monday, March 30, 2015

Paris: La Bastille – Alain Ducasse – Manufacture de Chocolat


photograph by Pierre Monetta – courtesy Alain Ducasse

Paris: La Bastille – Alain Ducasse – Manufacture de Chocolat. Impossible to find without the exact address, the Alain Ducasse – Manufacture de Chocolat factory is hidden away in a courtyard on a busy ethnic street just off the Place de la Bastille.

 

Alain Ducasse – Manufacture de Chocolat. La Manufacture de chocolat is born from the renowned French chef, Alain Ducasse’s desire to return to the source, the very essence of what chocolate is made of: precise, meticulous and creative work, a craft that works with bespoke machinery, a drawn out process… In a world in constant motion and at an increasingly rapid pace, this environment returns to a slower, more patient time, on a more human scale.


 Video: La Manufacture de Chocolat - Le Film

  photographs by Pierre Monetta – courtesy Alain Ducasse

Alain Ducasse – Manufacture de Chocolat.  Ducasse’s dream of chocolate never left him.  It has taken true form today, with the creation of the Manufacture, under the direction of Nicolas Berger. Ducasse always wanted to make his own chocolate to serve in his restaurants, to achieve this, it must be made from start to finish, initially with the bean, subject to a stringent selection.
Above. Maitre chocolatier Nicholas Berger.

 photograph by Pierre Monetta – courtesy Alain Ducasse

Alain Ducasse – Manufacture de Chocolat.  Since the very beginning,  Alain Ducasse’s culinary philosophy is based on a rigorous selection of quality products, fully expressing their original flavors and fragrances.



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