How to make artisanal chocolate in Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the latest episode of The Earful Tower podcast. In this episode, we're joined by Marielle Bourat from the artisanal chocolate shop Atelier C, located on Avenue Dausmenil in Paris.
Marielle shares her passion for chocolate-making, which has formed over three generations, and she shares the story of Atelier C and its location in the charming Viaduc des Arts.
From the sourcing of the finest ingredients to the creation of unique and delicious flavors, Marielle gives us an inside look at the world of artisanal chocolate.
Listeners can find Atelier C at 123 Avenue Dausmenil, 75012 Paris. Be sure to stop by and try some of their amazing chocolate creations and to learn how to make it "From bean to bar".
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, earful tower listeners. |
| 0:02.4 | My name, as I think you know already, is Oliver G. |
| 0:05.9 | And this is a show about Paris, a show about France, a show that apparently helps the listeners to win their pub quizzes by one point. |
| 0:16.1 | More on that at the end of the episode, as we allow a French police car to pass in the distance |
| 0:23.3 | making you all feel like you're in Paris with me now I want to tell you a story |
| 0:28.6 | about this episode that you're about to hear it is about a chocolate shop and I |
| 0:35.3 | was walking around the ever intriguing 12th Arandismont. |
| 0:41.1 | So many stories hidden in this fascinating district of Paris and I was walking along what's |
| 0:47.7 | called the Viaduct Desert and I know I haven't talked about that on the podcast before because |
| 0:54.0 | today I found myself |
| 0:55.6 | struggling to pronounce it. What it is, you have to imagine an old train line that 100 years |
| 1:02.5 | ago went through the 12th hour and this month and then fairly recently 20, 25 years ago, |
| 1:09.9 | they turned it into a high line, a long walkway for parks. |
| 1:13.8 | I've talked about this on the show before, the Kuley Vat, full of greenery, full of people |
| 1:18.1 | strolling along and it stretches for kilometers. |
| 1:21.0 | A really nice highline walk that is said to have inspired the one in New York City. |
| 1:28.0 | But what I've never focused on before is what's going on under those arches. |
| 1:33.9 | In the arches of the viaduct, there are, I don't know, I don't have all the facts with me right now, |
| 1:39.1 | but there are 20 or 30 or maybe even more big buildings inside each of these arches and they're all seemingly all of them |
| 1:50.0 | are fascinating right so you have you have for example one that fixes old french horns they have |
| 1:57.8 | there's one with two young guys from nonantes who make gin, a gin distillery. |
| 2:02.9 | They have glass blowing. |
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