Master chocolatier creates chocolate Christmas Tree
(26 Nov 2010) SHOTLIST 1. Tilt down of the chocolate Christmas tree 2. Various close ups of the chocolate tree 3. Close up of Santa Claus made of chocolate at base of tree 4. Pan right of French chocolatier Patrick Roger decorating chocolate Santa Claus 5. Close up, tilt up of Roger decorating chocolate Santa Claus 6. SOUNDBITE (French) Patrick Roger, French chocolatier: "It took one month, for the team (to make the tree). It weighs four tons (8,000 pounds), almost four tons. The Christmas tree is 10 meters (about 32 feet) high. And to achieve this kind of architecture - because this really is a piece of architecture - we used a sort of alveolus inside to make the chocolate solid enough, because there is very strong vertical pressure." 7. Tilt up of the chocolate tree 8. Various of chocolate sculptures 9. Various of chocolate machine 10. Mid of Japanese chocolatier Daisuke Yamanoushi working for Roger, making small Santas 11. Close of small chocolate Santa 12. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Daisuke Yamanoushi, chocolatier, working for Patrick Roger: "What I like about working here and staying in France is that I can work with such high quality chocolate. In Japan it's complicated, but here you have it all the time. Working with my boss, Patrick Roger, is very interesting, I get to discover his art and those fantastic flavours, he is very gifted." 13. Set up shot of trainee chocolatier Katherine Bosch, 29, from New York, USA, working in Roger's chocolate laboratory 14. Close up of chocolate 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Bosch, US trainee at Patrick Roger's chocolate laboratory: "It's when I studied here at University (that I decided to come and work here). I think that's the first time that I discovered desserts and chocolates, the desserts and chocolates of the French and I just found that they were of such high quality. It was just so different. I mean, not to discredit the US, but I just immediately fell in love with the pastries here. And that's why I decided to come back and study and do a stage here." 16. Close up of chocolate reindeer 17.Tilt up of Santa Claus made of chocolate MASTER CHOCOLATIER CREATES CHOCOLATE CHRISTMAS TREE A famous French chocolatier has prepared a giant chocolate Christmas tree in his laboratory near Paris that will be used to raise funds for next week's 'Telethon', a television charity event to support research into neuromuscular diseases. The ten-meter (about 32 feet)-high tree, towering inside chocolatier Patrick Roger's chocolate factory in Sceaux, in the suburbs of Paris, weighs four tons (8,000 pounds) and is a rare piece of 'architecture'. "To achieve this kind of architecture - because this really is a piece of architecture - we used a sort of alveolus inside to make the chocolate solid enough, because there is very strong vertical pressure," Roger told the Associated Press on Friday. The tree, which took Roger's team one month to craft, will be a highlight at France's Telethon, a nationwide charity event to support research into neuromuscular diseases. It will be broadcast on French television on December 3 and 4. Participants will receive pieces of the tree in exchange for their donations. Patrick Roger is one France's most famous chocolatiers. He was named 'Meilleur Ouvrier de France Chocolatier' (best French artisan-chocolatier) in 2000, an award for professionals combining art and taste and proving to be worthy representatives of French gastronomy. People working in Roger's busy chocolate laboratory in Sceaux are enthusiastic about their experience. Many of them come from abroad. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
