Adelbert Bucher

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Adelbert Bucher is a Swiss master chocolatier, currently employed by the Swiss chocolate company Lindt and Sprüngli Schweiz AG.

Bucher, of Luzern, Switzerland, has sculpted iconic monuments such as the Blue Mosque of Istanbul, Turkey, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the Titanic, as well as Dubai's Emirates Towers out of chocolate.

The Emirates Tower sculpture required 100 kilograms of chocolate, and the Titanic construction was 4 metres in length.^[1][2]

Trips to India

Since April 2010, Chef Bucher has visited India a number of times in order to replicate various structures out of chocolate. His visits to India have featured the reconstructions of:

• The Taj Mahal,^[3] twice.
• The Bandra Worli Sea Link Bridge^[4]
• The Vidhana Soudha of Bangalore^[5]
• The Charminar of Hyderabad ^[6]

See also

Chocolate

Sources