It was in 2022 when a giant chocolate elephant introduced Lluc Crusellas (1996, Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer) to the whole world. To win the most prized award in the cocoa world, the World Chocolate Masters, you need the mindset of an elite athlete. A well-adjusted head that Crusellas already had, who even now, as he is at the pinnacle of the pastry excellence pyramid, finds time to participate by bicycle in the Titan Desert. He has already been in the four previous editions and explains that, if the dates allow it, we will see him pedaling there again. From the desert to desserts, since the village boy –a village that has named him a favorite son– is requested all over the world to give courses. This very year, he is expected in Poland, France, Belgium, Italy, China, and Japan. That is why he has also been in charge of designing the Barcelona box of chocolates. They are called Gaudeat and can be bought at the architect's iconic buildings. There are nine chocolates inspired by his work, including the dragon of Park Güell. Crusellas has also made his way into the Chocolate Museum, located in the Born neighborhood of Barcelona. There is a majestic replica of the famous chocolate elephant sculpture with which he won the contest. Although it is a meter and a half high and weighs 100 kilos, it is a smaller version made to scale. The original was around 200 kilos of chocolate.

The chocolate tile filled with pistachio praline and toasted pastry kataifi (a type of filo pastry) has become a mass phenomenon that has divided chocolatiers into two camps: those who don't want to know anything about it, because they find it commercial; and those who have started making it because they consider it to be as good an invention as After Eight, which was created in the United Kingdom in 1962. The fact is that this innovative chocolate tile, created by the Egyptian Sarah Hamouda in 2022, has a high price due to the filling, specifically the praline, the pistachios with sugar, because the nuts cost around thirty euros per kilo. Therefore, the chocolatier Lluc Crusellas He says that "if you find a Dubai chocolate for two euros, it's a fake Dubai tile, without pistachios."

Jordi Roca, one of the world's best pastry chefs, was walking through the Llémena Valley looking for flowers when a man on a bicycle stopped. "What are you doing, Jordi? You look like a bogeyman with this bag," he asked. "I'm looking for flowers to make desserts," Jordi replied happily. In front of him was a true legend of Catalan motorsports, Salvador Servià. "Being able to meet people like him makes me happy," says the youngest of the Roca brothers, who still has no idea what his future holds when he arrives at the starting point of the KH-7 Costa Brava Rally and is allowed into the area reserved for drivers. "Me being the driver. It's awesome!" he says, smiling.

"When you see how they unload the truck, you already know who will be on the podium," says a chocolatier who has been part of the jury of the World Chocolate Masters, the competition that made us discover a name: Lluc Crusellas, the boyfriend of Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer which in 2022 won the most precious trophy in the world of cocoa. And all this, long before anyone thought he could win – well, someone did think that, we'll get to that – was recorded by Jordi Torra. A material that has now been transformed into a documentary and that could be seen at the Atlántida in Vic.