The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney is about to open its new horticultural space with an exhibition that’s sure to get chocolate-lovers’ taste buds tingling.
Sweet Addiction– an exhibit charting the botanic history of chocolate – will be the opening attraction at The Calyx, a new space dedicated to art, theatre and flora.
The Botanic Garden’s exhibit organisers, led by director of horticulture management Jimmy Turner, promise that this chocfest will provide “an opportunity to touch, see, smell, taste and experience chocolate like never before”. Can’t argue with that.
Visitors will experience the origins of chocolate in a tropical rainforest, and over a 45-minute journey, will follow the process of chocolate creation right through ancient history to a modern-day Lindt mill.
The exhibition sponsor Lindt will have plenty of its delicacies available, and Lindt master chocolatier Thomas Schnetzler will host chocolate demonstrations on opening weekend as well as during Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter periods.
Sweet Addictionopens at The Calyx in the Royal Botanic Garden on Saturday June 11, and continues until April 2017. Tickets are $15 andon sale now.
