What do you get for the chocoholic who has everything? Try one of these unique, educational, and entertaining videos! We've selected each of these titles because we thoroughly enjoyed them, and we know you (or the person you're buying for) will love them as much as we do! These videos are for people who enjoy preparing chocolate almost as much as consuming it... Expert chefs will work with you to prepare their special recipes. You will see beautiful chocolate scenes lovingly depicted on screen. See how chocolate is made! Take a RealVideo tour of the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory near San Francisco. (Video courtesy of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.) |
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| With movies like Chocolat, it's always best to relax your intellectual faculties and absorb the abundant sensual pleasures, be it the heart-stopping smile of chocolatier Juliette Binoche as she greets a new customer, an intoxicating cup of spiced hot cocoa, or the soothing guitar of an Irish gypsy played by Johnny Depp. |
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| Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes Babette's Feast and Big Night. Director Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds),tells the story of a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) who learns to suppress her passions under the eye of a stern mother, but channels them into her cooking. |
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| Having proven itself as a favorite film of children around the world, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is every bit as entertaining now as it was when originally released in 1971. There's a timeless appeal to Roald Dahl's classic children's novel, which was playfully preserved in this charming musical |
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| Chefs from the top resturants across the country demonstrate how to make their most delicious chocolate desserts. Learn their secrets, and you, too, can create the kind of passion only chocolate can inspire! 57 minutes. |
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| Nino Manfredi gives a wonderfully comic and sensitive performance as Nino, an Italian working as a waiter in Switzerland. Absent three years from his wife and children--for whom he is theoretically raising money to join him in Swiss prosperity--Nino is a little like David Bowie's dispirited alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth, an outsider too reinvented to return to his roots. |