Video: A Gift for Sweet Tooths: 34 Meter Train Model at Chocolate Week Brussels
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Belgium - a chocolate country, you can't argue with that. On Brussels Chocolate Week the best masters presented amazing sculptures from this black-white-milk delicacy. Made a splash model train with a length of 33.6 meters, thanks to its gigantic size, got into the Guinness Book. Perhaps, chocolatier Andrew Farrugia the creation of such an unusual sculpture was inspired by the fact that Belgium was the first country in continental Europe to have a railway connection.
The idea to create a giant chocolate sculpture came from Andrew Farrugia after attending the Belgian Chocolate Festival, which traditionally takes place in the city of Bruge. The master certainly wanted to create a very long sculpture, the train turned out to be a good find for this, since the number of cars in it could be unlimited! Andrew Farrugia created a "test" train with a length of 12 feet, while in Brussels he presented a larger creation to the jury.
It took 784 hours of painstaking work to create a train with a length of almost 34 meters. The first seven cars are a modern Belgian train, while the rest of the train is modeled after the old railroad cars. By the way, the chocolatier did his best and managed to reproduce even the dining car.
Three days before the opening of Chocolate Week, Andrew Farrugia transported a unique train from Malta (the home of the chocolatier, where he worked on the creation of the sculpture) to Belgium. Unfortunately, several cars were damaged during transportation, but the master "repaired" the train and presented it to the public. By the way, the idea of creating a chocolate transport is not new. Last year, French pastry chefs from the city of Quimpe managed to hold the sweetest regatta, during which sailors drove chocolate boats!
Of course, masters of chocolate do not only gather in Belgium. On our website Kulturologiya.ru we have already written about other festivals dedicated to this delicacy. Among the highlights are the Fairfax Chocolate Festival and the Chocolate Salon in Switzerland.
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