From Friday, 15 October 2010 To Sunday, 24 October 2010
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A Chocolate Festival in Italy!
Who doesn't love Chocolate? Well, you certainly can't accuse an Italian of not loving chocolate. In fact one of the largest producing houses of fine chocolates is in the town of it's name sake.
Perugia, Italy - located in Umbria. This town prides it's self year round of it's chocolate aficionado however there is one particular time out of every year when they boast their best and most creative Chocolate fare. It's the Eurochocolate Festival in mid October and like any celebration in Italy, it lasts as long as necessary to make it superb. This one lasting a full 10 days.
2010 schedule: October 15th through the 24th
10 DAYS OF CHOCOLATE! Stay at the first Hotel dedicated to Chocolate, The Estruscan Chocohotel in Perugia, and experience chocolate as the feature of everyday life. There are events and things to do throughout the town such as:
An Enormous Chocolate Sculture Contest:
This is particularly popular to the children that huddle around to capture the shavings of the sculpture.
The most creative chocolate candy and cookies
Featured Chocolate Beauty Products and Spa Treatments:
Could you imagine anything more decadent then a relaxing massage of Chocolate?
Even the best Chocolate Hair style contest.
Features of everyday Chocolate Foods such as:
Chocolate salami, Chocolate Olive Oil and of course Pasta.
As far as I'm concerned life doesn't get any better then that. Two of my favorite foods. Chocolate and Pasta! During my stay I stumbled upon this sinful pleasure of Chocolate Pasta with a warm strawberry sauce and freshly made whipped cream! It was touched with just the right amount of heat from the red crushed pepper to give it a spicy teaser to the tongue, cooled by the freshly whipped cream decorated with mint.
In Italy when you order a hot chocolate they will bring you a small bowl of whipped cream to add as much as you like to the warm delicious drink. Just as they did with this chocolate pasta masterpiece. Of course if you're going to do it you must do it to the fullest extent.
If chocolate is the food of the gods then this is the international Ambrosia event of the year and what I truly call "La Dolce Vita"!
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