The Chocolatier’s Job

Many of us will buy chocolate in its simplest form—as a bar. But there are many delicious variations and ways with chocolate. If you walk into a specialty chocolate shop, you will see a whole host of tantalizing delights.

The chocolatier is the artist whose skills are those of a painter, sculptor, and architect with a degree in gastronomy, who will engineer the lightest, fluffiest, and tastiest of creations. He will whisk, fold, mold, and cajole the Ingredients into truffles, pralines, cakes, and a larder full of other little pastries—a hedonist’s Imperative. A top pastry chef or chocolatier will train for many years before finally taking charge of a pastry department in a top hotel or restaurant.