By Liesel Davis
The New York Chocolate Show opens it’s doors for one blissful weekend each fall. Make that the same weekend as Halloween and the New York City Marathon, and you have a city filled to the brim with out-of-towners and locals on a rush, whether from adrenaline, chocolate/sugar overindulgence, or parading around the town in a let-loose parade-cum-party-in-the-streets.
And summoning the spirits of great chocolatiers everywhere, a haunted house was constructed by several of the pasty chef–instructors at the FCI, honoring two of the weekend’s festivities (maybe three if the sites below make you run away in fright). Kir Rodriguez and and Jae Kim gave me a sneak peek of their horrifying masterpiece as it neared completion this morning.
Happy Halloween!
The first story of the main house. Check out that marvelous front door.
Blood and carnage
FCI pastry chef-instructor Jae Kim
A portrait of the dead house owner who started all the haunting mayhem, as the story I was told goes. Chef Kim poured melted chocolate over ice to create the frame and applied five layers of color, starting with black, to create the burnished hue.
