by Cesare Zucca

Auditorium Milano: after the exquisite “Beethoven and Chocolate”, the great Maitre Chocolatier Ernst Knam performed  in a new “Chocolate is music!” event, a 360-degree sensorial experience for a large live symphony based on Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” directed and narrated by Maestro Ruben Jais conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.

Ernst Knam, born in 1963, German by birth and Milanese by adoption, after numerous years spent in the kitchens of the greatest starred and prestigious restaurants in the world, arrives in Italy and enters the kitchen of Gualtiero Marchesi as Master Pastry Chef, the last step in his training before starting the entrepreneurial activity.

The Spanish dance becomes Chocolat, a dark chocolate with caramelized walnuts and Maldom salt. Much more exotic taste for the coffee with frozen vanilla moment dedicated to the notes of the Arabic dance . One of my favorite was the “Thè” inspired by the Chinese dance Chinese where the praline can only be called tea and be a salted caramel chocolate, white chocolate ganache is infused with black tea and the delicate whit tea.For the vigorous Russian dance , Maitre Knam planned three packages of amaretto di Saronno, marzipan, dark and white chocolate
Grand finale with the famous Flowers waltz, where nothing could spark better than dark chocolate marries to a graceful and romantic candied violet,
In these quiet troubled times we live, was amazing to be able to sit down, relax and indulge the very sweet harmony between the main characteristics of the symphony and some of its creations designed ad hoc, delicious mouth-watering pralines.

Bravo Maitre, Bravo Maestro!