The ultimate comfort

Chocolatiers entice to the point of too much

By Kirsten Scharnberg
Tribune national correspondent

November 19, 2003

NEW YORK --

Of all the ways chocolate was being displayed and eaten at the show, perhaps one of the most unusual could be found in the booth run by Australian artist Sid Chidiac.

An oil painter, Chidiac began experimenting about a year ago with painting with chocolate. He melts white chocolate to a liquid consistency and then adds colors to it. He paints fast, before the chocolate begins to dry and set, and often has to add more melted chocolate to his painting to keep it malleable.

"When I began doing this, I ate a lot of the chocolate I was supposed to paint with," he said. "But, by the end, I was not terribly interested in eating it anymore.

"Believe it or not, there comes a point when you've had too much chocolate."

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