Italian Chef Davide Comaschi has won the World Chocolate Masters 2013 with UK contestant, Ruth Hinks, coming in the top five, the UK's highest ever result.
After three-days of breathtaking competition between nineteen national Chocolate Masters, the results of the fifth World Chocolate Masters competition have been announced. The event took place at the "Salon du Chocolat Professionnel" exhibition at Porte de Versailles in Paris (France).
The top three were:
Davide Comaschi from Italy, World Chocolate Master 2013
Marike Van Beurden from Netherlands in second place
Deniz Karaca from Australia in third place
At this year's world finals, organised for the fifth time by Cacao Barry®, Callebaut® and Carma®, Davide Comaschi, winner of the Italian World Chocolate Masters preselection, was selected as the "World Chocolate Master 2013" by an international jury composed of twenty-three leading chocolate professionals. In second place was Marike Van Beurden from Netherlands and in third place Deniz Karaca from Australia.
With the theme of this year's competition being "The Architecture of Taste", the jury carefully evaluated the contestants'
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