The aroma of chocolate wafts in the air as this presentation connects the cultural use of chocolate from Meso-America to Europe and back to colonial America and Pennsylvania. Learn the basics of cacao cultivation, harvesting and fermentation. Examine Mayan, Aztec and European artifacts to compare and contrast chocolate in different societies and explore the place of chocolate in Pennsylvania.
Participants have the opportunity to grate "chocolate cakes" and make and sample a historic chocolate beverage. Presented by Susan McLellan Plaisted, a dietitian & food historian.
This presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities.
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