Chocolate in contemporary culture

Chocolate in books, movies and music

Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris about a young widow in a French Catholic village begins a chocolate shop, which she brings joy into everyone's life. The book was filmed in 2000, with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp in the lead roles.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ") is a children's book by Roald Dahl. It was filmed in 1971 as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Stuart Mell, with starring Gene Wilder and Peter Ostrum.
Also director Tim Burton filmed the story of Roald Dahl. The film called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was premiered on July 15, 2005 with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.
Hot Chocolate is the name of a British disco band in the sixties and seventies furore.
In the Harry Potter books is several times for chocolate as a medicine against the effects of Dementors on the people around them.
In the animated series South Park makes the chocolate balls schoolkok Chef, Chocolate Salty Balls Chef's.
Como agua para chocolate is a movie to the book by Laura Esquivel. Head Figure Tita is in love with Pedro. They can not marry him because her mother thinks that the youngest daughter to the mother tradiegetrouw care. She can explain her love to him only through her cooking: if one of her dishes we eat undergoes her feelings.

 Chocolate in the language
Known the saying: I can not make chocolate from. This means something like 'this is so incoherent, incomprehensible or strange that I can do nothing. " The phrase can refer to anything which is very illogical.

Chocolate Festivals
In the Italian city of Perugia (Umbria) Since 1993 the yearly chocolate festival held Eurochocolate.
Since 2002 will be held in Zutphen each year on the third Sunday of September a chocolate festival in the city. In Hattem is a biennial festival of chocolate.
In Bruges is since 2006 the chocolate festival Choco-Late place since 2009 in Maastricht.

Museums
Barcelona - Museum Xocolate
Biarritz - Musée du Chocolat, part of the local chocolate factory Henriet. Especially the chocolate sculptures of chocolate maker Serge Couzigou.
Bruges - In Bruges is the chocolate museum Choco-Story, set in an old wine tavern circa 1480.
Brussels - In Brussels, the Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate located.
Erezée - For Briscol in Erezée is the chocolate museum Chocolaterie Defroidmont.
Eupen - For Eupen is "Chocolate Land", founded in 1994 by the local chocolate factory, Jacques. It is an exhibition of cocoa, and chocolate with demonstrations of the process, and promoting the products of the factory.
Cologne - Cologne's chocolate museum opened in 1993. It attracts approximately 500,000 visitors per year.
Lugano - Lugano in the chocolate museum of Swiss chocolate factory Alprose.
Vienna - Vienna in the Wiener Erstes Schokolade Museum established the firm founded by Heindl.

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