The Lower Providence Community Library will host Commonwealth Speaker Susan McLellan Plaisted’s presentation “Chocolate: The Pennsylvania Connection” on Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
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. Susan McLellan Plaisted is the proprietress of Heart to Hearth Cookery, a food history business based in Bucks County, PA. She is a Board Certified Pediatric Dietitian with a master’s degree in health education, and has researched and studied food history for more than twenty years. She has more than 34 years of public speaking experience, and has spoken to groups including historical societies, antique clubs, culinary historian groups, libraries and national and international associations.
This presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities. The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a nonprofit organization, inspires individuals to enjoy and share a life of learning.
This program is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Audubon Women’s Club. Registration is requested. Sign up here.
