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.
