Antoni Escriba, 73, Sculptor of Chocolate

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Antoni Escriba, an award-winning pastry chef who worked wonders with chocolate and once used it to fashion a replica of the Vatican, died Monday in Cadaques, Spain. He was 73.


Escriba fell and suffered a head injury Monday while visiting a Salvador Dali museum with his wife and grandson.


Over a career spanning 60 years, Escriba received honors as a master chef from the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, and a cultural medal from the town council of Barcelona.


Escriba came from a family of pastry chefs but wanted to be a sculptor. The death of two siblings forced him to join the family business, and over time he melded his two passions by becoming what he called a sculptor of chocolate.


He also gave many lectures in which he vehemently defended the use of high-quality chocolate as opposed to cheap, adulterated versions.


“I am a Che Guevara of chocolate,” he said last year, according to La Vanguardia.


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