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Canadian chocolatier offers eccentric flavours
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Toronto - 16 May 2008
1. Close of chocolate being churned
2. Close of chocolate in baskets in SOMA Chocolatemaker shop
3. Wide of shop shelves
4. Exterior of SOMA Chocolatemaker shop
5. Wide of Toronto's Distillery District
6. Tourists taking pictures of vintage chocolate grinding machine
7. Interior of SOMA Chocolatemaker store
8. Pull out to cash register
9. Close of balsamic vinegar chocolates
10. Various of olive oil chocolates
11. Close of Douglas Fir chocolates
12, Close of spicy chilli pepper chocolates
13. Set up of owners of SOMA Chocolatemaker Cynthia Leung and husband David Castallan
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Cynthia Leung, Owner of SOMA Chocolatemaker:
We offer flavour profiles that nobody else offers because we experiment a lot. We come up with some pretty interesting flavours. We have a Mayan Dome truffle, which has chilli peppers in it. We also have balsamic vinegar aged six years with dark chocolate. We have Arbequina Spanish oil, which is a single origin olive oil truffle, and also our most eccentric chocolate which is a Douglas Fir chocolate. It's like eating chocolate in a forest. We use the oil from the Douglas Fir tree which is part of the pine family and we mix it with dark chocolate.
15. Close of lychee bomb chocolate
16. Close of chocolate
17. Close of cocoa beans
18. David Castallan scooping beans
19. Mid of David Castallan pouring beans in mixer
20. Mid of beans coming out of mixer
21. Close of beans being roasted
22. Various of vintage chocolate mixer
23. Various of David Castallan scooping chocolate in the mixer
24. Close of chocolate pouring
25. Liquor being poured into melted chocolate
26. Wide of David pouring chocolate out of machine
27. Close of chocolate being poured into bowl
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Cynthia Leung, Owner of SOMA Chocolatemaker:
Instead of having somebody else make chocolate for us and making truffles from somebody else's chocolate, we actually wanted to make chocolate from scratch, so I mean from the cocoa bean. We take the cocoa bean and we crush it, winnow it and process it into chocolate so we can control all the taste factors and the flavour profiles to suit what we were doing with all our flavours.
29. Family eating chocolate
30. Boy eating chocolate
31. Close of child eating chocolate ice cream
32. Wide of chocolate factory worker
33. Various of factory worker dipping chocolate pieces
34. Wide of chocolate display case
35. Set up of registered nutritional consultant Rose Reisman
36. Close of Rose Reisman's nutritional books
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Rose Reisman, Registered Nutritional Consultant:
We know that there are about 600 different chemicals in cocoa and that can help our immune system, actually improve it. There have also been studies to show that 50% of men have reduced their risk of heart disease if they have a little bit of dark chocolate and I'm talking about the 70% (cocoa content) everyday over a period of years. But even more than that, it can lower blood pressure, it can increase the good cholesterol, the HDL, and decrease the bad cholesterol, the LDL.
38. Various of customers in chocolate store
39. Mid of chocolate churning
40. Close of row of chocolate pieces
LEAD IN:
An increasing number of chocolatiers are moving into the the market for artisan chocolate made with high-end and unusual ingredients.
At SOMA Chocolatemaker in Toronto, chocolate is big business, and it's made from scratch with ingredients such as balsamic vinegar, Spanish olive oil, Douglas Fir tree oil and chili peppers.
STORYLINE:
Chocolate is a popular product wherever you are in the world.
Now organic chocolates are slowly taking over the market.
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Soma Chocolatemaker
Welcome To SOMA Chocolatemaker Out In Toronto, Ontario Canada!
I Love Chocolate!
We found out about this Delicious Chocolate Store while walking through the Distillery District.
SOMA Chocolatemaker has two (2) shops and a small chocolate factory in Toronto.
From Bean to bar chocolate, cookies, truffles, gelato, hot chocolate and More!
They are always looking forward to Developing New Chocolate Creations which are always in the works!
I want to personally Thank Joseph for helping ME make my Youtube Video.
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