Can every story be told in the form of eating and food? Dumas' famous Three Musketeers would be The Three Chocolatiers. What evil plot would they seek to destroy in order to protect King and Country?
Perhaps they are visiting the Cote D'Ivoire - the Ivory Coast the largest supplier of cocoa - 30 percent of the world's total cocoa - with 1.5 million tonnes. The evil plot is to destroy the cocoa crop in order for the general of the military to take over the government with martial law, and empty its treasury. The Three Chocolatiers must preserve democracy in this important chocolate country.
Or they could have discovered a plot by chocolate giants Hershey and Ferrero who have heavily invested in facilities for cocoa production in Mexico, but somehow the crops are falling to disease. Could Hershey and Ferrero be behind the failures, wanting production in other cheaper countries they produce to dominate? The Three Chocolatiers must find out and save the Mexican farmers from ruin.
Is it Peru? They grow cocoa and cocaine. Are the cocaine drug lords forcing cocoa farmers out of business, as they take over the land to grow more coca. They seek to create both world shortages of cocoa and gain more profit from cocaine, debilitating populations with addiction. The Three Chocolatiers must save Peruvian farmers, chocolate lovers, and people from falling into addiction around the world.
And finally, could this be a WWII story? The American troops brought endless chocolate bars and Coca-cola to the British population living on rations when they came for the D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches. What if the chocolate bars were poisoned and the British and Americans would fall ill to the chocolate plague? Then Germany would win the war. The Three Chocolatiers have a challenge in this plot - how to confiscate all that chocolate to keep it from killing the population.
I found some pictures of the famous dessert chef Gaston Lenotre's Paris patisserie during our visit in 2003. Chocolate truffles - would they be worth dying for? Ask the Three Chocolatiers.
