Mark National Chocolate Day with top notch delights

Today is National Chocolate Day, and we want to know, what goes into making great chocolate?

Some of the world’s greatest chocolatiers come from Belgium, Switzerland, and France and Kelowna is lucky enough to have a little piece of that in its community.

Enter Sandrine Martin, owner of Sandrine French Pastry & Chocolate, who comes from a family of celebrated chocolatiers

“It runs in the family,” Martin told Kelowna10. “I still have some family in a chocolate and pastry business back in France.”

Upon entering the store, you are met with a beautiful display of finely crafted chocolates, in an assortment of different unique shapes and flavours.

She says the key to great chocolate is using quality ingredients in well balanced recipes, but there is quite a bit of skill involved as well.

“You have to be extremely precise and consistent,” she passionately explained. “It’s a very precise art.”

To her the allure of chocolate is rather simple, to be able to have a single bite that can bring you such amounts of pleasure is unlike anything else.

And while it may have been something that ran in her family, she is still very passionate and happy to be doing what she does.

“It makes me feel good because when you have customers coming in the store and I say, ‘how are you doing today?’ they say, ‘I'm good now that I'm here.’

“You're doing something that helps people and that's really nice.”