"John Down, master chocolatier at Christopher Norman Chocolates, was the first guy in New York to use chocolate as a basis for his art. He created all types of items in chocolate and it rapidly set the Chocolate World on fire. This occurred in the early 1990's, when no one else was mastering chocolate as an item that created fine art and jewelry items....Down has put his considerable fine arts and design talent to work in the creation of a new genre of hand-made chocolates.”