Friday, November 14, 2008

Is This A Christian "L'chayim"?

If you go here, you can purcahse this:



and what is it?

Swiss chocolatier Blaise Poyet believes he has captured the essence of the Protestant reformer Jean Calvin in special chocolate pralines he created to mark the 500th anniversary of the religious figure who made his mark on European history.

"It's not easy to represent theological ideas by using the taste buds," acknowledges Poyet, a master chocolatier from Maison Poyet in Vevey, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Geneva, where the French-born reformer lived and worked. "But the key thing for Calvin is the glory of God, his excellence, his perfection. So we chose a chocolate that we chocolatiers find exceptional, rare and flawless."

The chocolates were unveiled in Geneva on 2 November after a ceremony to launch a year called "calvin09" to mark the 500th anniversary in 2009 of Calvin's birth, along with other products and events intended to capture the life and spirit of Calvin.

The Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches approached Maison Poyet to produce the chocolates.


Is this a Christian way of saying 'l'chayim'?

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