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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Amazing and amusing coffees, chocolates and pastries at HorReCa at Expo in Singapore



For sheer amusement, I liked Mootivate. The pun on motivate. and Moo cows. Plus the cartoon cows.




The little coffee waste bin was cute.


More amusement from the Grands Moulins to Paris. Yes, I recognize what looks like an Eiffel Tower frame. Yes, I recognize the word moulin is windmill as in Moulin Rouge, red windmill.


Green House with their simple outline of a house caught my attention. I fancied Pistacchio. 


Green house also had red heart shapes, ruby chocolate and vanilla flavour.


I had had too much sugar. Craigmillar offered reduced sugar. 


Who can resist these sheep, the white made from meringue, or is it sugared almonds.


This Swiss roll is beautifully decorated. But many of the stands were selling catering packs of ingredients. It is up to the chef to add water and then sculpt or use a mould, and decorate with fresh or sugared or syruped fruit.

More hearts. Pale pink. Contrast of raspberry, rosemary sprigs, and blueberries.  Or a Red glaze on a large heart shape cheesecake or layered cake, adorned with raspberries. 

The big surprise for me on a recent visit at the Tanglin Club tea lounge in Singapore, was that the strawberry decoration on a cheescake was not fresh fruit but a chocolate filled soft praline.

I love the chocolate butterflies. What a contrast 

IRCA offered a recipe book.













 

I knew the French chocolate company Valrhona, but the other company names were all new to me.

Useful Websites

Show at Expo:

www.fhaHoReCa.com

Cocoa Powders for chefs, artisans and professionals - coffee flavours:

dezaan.com/en/pro

Recipe book:

https://www.irca.eu/en/recipe/recipe-detail-

https://www.irca.eu/en/company/history

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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Chocolate Factory Visit Valrhona In France, or take classes in the USA



Problem
Valrhona - oops - how do you spell it? Where is the Valrhona chocolate factory visit in France?

Answer
Val as in valley or Valerie, Valerie in the Valley, then rhona as in the river Rhone. VAL-RH-ON-A. Yes, Tain-Hermitage in the southeast of France is on the river Rhone, near the gastronomic city of Lyons. (We went to the Kir factory.)

Chocolate tours seem to be multiplying worldwide. I've been to chocolate factory and shop tours all over, the biggest and best known in England being Cadbury. Chocolate shops with tastings are multiplying in London. We booked an evening chocolate and wine matching evening. More chocolate factory tours and events are in York going north, which I heard about at the annual long weekend chocolate show in London at Olympia. If you want a tour, you must book.

Over in the USA I saw the Hershey shop in New York, not a tour, but enough information posters and entertaining animations to provide amusement.

In Europe we took the train to the museum of Alprose in Switzerland. In Italy, Umbria has an annual chocolate event. France has more.

Valrhona chocolates on a stand at ProWine Asia in Singapore April 2018. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I learned about the Valrhona chocolate factory visit in France when I was at ProWine Asia exhibition in Singapore. Valrhona also have a branch in Brooklyn, New York, USA, memorably on Water Street by the Brooklyn Bridge, where they hold classes for non-professionals.

Useful Websites
https://www.ardeche-hermitage.com/en/catalog/activity/cite-du-chocolat-valrhona-403003/

https://www.facebook.com/Valrhona/?brand_redir=215088746562
Video of chocolate making at the top of their Facebook page.

https://www.valrhona-chocolate.com/pastry-classes 
(Brooklyn, USA)

https://www.cellartours.com/blog/france/guide-french-chocolate Wonderful website about chocolate shop and factory visits all over France, including the Jews fleeing the Inquisition in Portugal taking their chocolate making skills to the south of France, then having to move on, but leaving behind the tradition of chocolate making.

https://www.valrhona-chocolate.com
The factory's website showing the different colours and flavours of chocolate, brown, cream and pink ovals of nutty and fruity flavours such as passionfruit and almond. You can order Valrhona chocolate online to be shipped from France to all over the world.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. See my other posts on chocolate.