Adelbert Bucher
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Adelbert Bucher is a Swiss master chocolatier, currently employed by the Swiss chocolate company Lindt and Sprüngli Schweiz AG.
Bucher, of Luzern, Switzerland, has sculpted iconic monuments such as the Blue Mosque of Istanbul, Turkey, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the Titanic, as well as Dubai's Emirates Towers out of chocolate.
The Emirates Tower sculpture required 100 kilograms of chocolate, and the Titanic construction was 4 metres in length.[1]
Trips to India[]
Since April 2010, Chef Bucher has visited India a number of times in order to replicate various structures out of chocolate. His visits to India have featured the reconstructions of:
- The Taj Mahal,[2] twice.
- The Bandra Worli Sea Link Bridge[2]
- The Vidhana Soudha of Bangalore[3]
- The Charminar of Hyderabad[4]
See also[]
Sources[]
- ^ "Choco Taj Mahal - Yahoo! India News". In.news.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Vidhana Soudha - Made in Chocolate". Ginger Chai. 18 September 2010.
- ^ "Charminar monument replicated in chocolate". Archived from the original on 2010-10-28.
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- Chocolatiers
- Living people