Commonwealth Speaker Susan McLellan Plaisted presents Chocolate: The PA Connection on Thursday, March 7th at 6:30pm at the Jordan Lutheran Church Family Center, 5103 Snowdrift Road, Orefield, PA 18069.
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.
Free and Open to the Public!
Please RSVP to 610-398-1361
This Commonwealth Speakers presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a nonprofit organization, inspires individuals to enjoy and share a life of learning.
