Sure Americans are nuts about Chestnuts, we have a song about em after all, but the people of Cuneo love them so much that they celebrate them with a 3 day festival! Literally called, you guessed it, The Chestnut Festival, the main roads get closed down to traffic and pretty white matching booths line the streets on either side like parked cars. Nestled inside the booths are various delectable displays of different types of  regional foods, salami, cheese, sweets and of course personal versions of roasted chestnuts from producers located throughout the entire region of Piemonte, The festival itself features traditional song and dance from the past and a roll of open fire chestnut roasters that send a smoky nutty perfume through he air. My  favorite event is the chocolate fair, where artists recreate imaginary scenes in chocolate. The designs can be huge, sometimes extraordinary and extremely elaborate. The photo above is a harvest scene created completely in yummy chocolate,  (I have to keep repeating it because I find it hard to believe myself, how on earth do they do that?!) from flowers to barrels. It is so beautifully exact that it would be a shame to eat it, as a matter of face it would be almost impossible to eat...
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