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Dedicated to chocolate
PHOTO: REUTERS
DREAM RIVER: Rich and creamy.
It takes a rare person to dislike chocolate and a rarer one to dislike Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now Amsterdam is all set to immortalise the book with a theme park dedicated to chocolate. Situated underground, like Willy Wonka's factory, the park will be established in a disused railway tunnel. Publisher Maurits Rubinstein, who began the project, is being supported by the city of Amsterdam and BAM, a Dutch construction company. It will cost 20 million euros and part of this is to be raised by bonds, which can be bought in children's names. Amsterdam has a long history of association with chocolate. Around 30 per cent of the world's cocoa comes to the city for processing and it also supplies cocoa paste to companies in Europe. In 1820, Coenraad Johannes van Houten invented the hydraulic cocoa press to manufacture chocolate for eating as opposed to already existing drinking and cooking chocolate. Want to see what the new chocolate theme park will look like? Click on Impressie on http://www.dechocoladefabriek.nl./
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