Hot Chocolate: From Indigenous American Rituals to Victorian Children’s Breakfast
Feb
11
Tuesday 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location(s): All Branches
Type(s): Food and Cooking, History, Savor the Past
Age Range(s): All Ages
Join food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson for this special combined cooking demonstration and talk. Sarah will demonstrate how to make hot chocolate and hot cocoa at home, the difference between the two, and the history of hot chocolate. Learn about its religious history and Indigenous origins, how it became a popular breakfast food, and why Victorian and Progressive Era Americans wanted kids to drink more of it. For more information or any issues with recieving the zoom link, send an email to Mark at buzzittam@cadl.org