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SUMMARY:The Story of Chocolate
DESCRIPTION:Join author and food historian\, Sarah Lohman\, to track the history of chocolate from its roots as an ancient Mesoamerican beverage to an intercontinental dessert. You’ll learn how a yellow\, football-shaped tropical fruit transforms into high-end dark chocolate\, and what “Mexican Hot Chocolate” has in common with what Montezuma drank. Plus\, get the answers to all of your delicious questions about modern chocolate: What’s better\, milk or dark? Why does Hershey’s have its own theme park? Who created the first chocolate bar? And why do we love chocolate so much? \nThis event will include a chocolate tasting. Limited spots available\, please pre-register! \nTickets\n$15 General Admission\n$10 for Connecticut Museum Member levels under $150\nFree for Connecticut Museum Member levels $150 and above \nGet Tickets\nAbout Our Speaker: Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors\, Food & Wine\, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country\, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington\, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California. She is a columnist for Gastro Obscura and writes about rare foods.
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LOCATION:Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, 1 Elizabeth St\, Hartford\, CT\, 06105\, United States
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