You shouldn't always take what you say too seriously, but sometimes you do. Exceptional chocolatier, best worker in France, business manager at the head of nine boutiques, but also a passionate sculptor in his chocolate factory-art workshop in Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine), Patrick Roger has no limit. Neither in his creations nor in his iconoclastic words. His answers flow, poetic or crude, sometimes without much relation to our questions.
He's a kind of contemporary Salvador Dali, without the Spanish accent. Wasn't Dali himself promoting a brand of chocolate on television? On the eve of Easter, which he celebrates with pretty geese with cocoa from Madagascar and hedgehogs garnished with fried pralines, we met him in his shop in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. To try to unravel its mysteries through its – very particular – relationship with food.
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