Chocolat So Chic!: The Secret Notebook of 40 Chocolate Lovers (Paperback)

They go loco for cocoa, gaga for ganache, or admit they are completely addicted. Meet forty chocoholics who describe their passion with relish. Nothing can compare to the delicious pleasure of opening a box of chocolate, especially if it's French chocolate! Now, the world-famous French chocolatier La Maison du Chocolat captures the sophistication, delicacy, and luxury of chocolate. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the company has interviewed forty artists, designers, writers, journalists, actors, and gourmets about their love of chocolate. Talents as diverse as famed patissier Pierre Herme, French style icon Ines de la Fressange, founder of NARS cosmetics Francois Nars, interior designer Sarah Lavoine, Laure Heriard-Dubreuil, founder of The Webster boutiques, and jewelry designer Sylvia Toledano share the ways in which chocolate inspires them. Through recipes, anecdotes, photographs, and drawings by award-winning illustrator Serge Bloch, La Maison du Chocolat's forty delectable years are illustrated in a book so French, so chic, and so delicious, it's hard to resist.