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A chocolate-made model of the factory and its neighbourhood is seen on the exposition of the E. Wedel Chocolate Factory museum in Warsaw, Poland, October 10, 2024. — AFP picWARSAW, Oct 25 — For almost a century, the smell of chocolate was carried by the breeze in Warsaw’s Kamionek neighbourhood, rising from the imposing Wedel factory — the seat of a sweet-toothed country’s most famous confectioner.
But this autumn, it has for the first time given a glimpse of life inside by opening its doors to house a chocolate museum.Her grandmother worked at the plant and she recalled playing with her collection of chocolate wrappers as a child. Across a glass wall separating the museum from the factory, workers stir giant cauldrons of a mix that will be made into bars of “chalwa” — a popular treat in Poland.As he dipped his finger in a wall of pouring chocolate, visitor Krzysztof Darewicz — who described himself as a “chocoholic” — said Wedel delicacies were “the taste of his childhood.”
“People not only know it but they also feel it because of the sweet smell,” the museum’s director, Robert Zydel, told AFP.
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