Lowell Lecture
Curated Conversations: Chocolate: Origins and Journey
Date & Time
April 21, 2019 at 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Laura Ziman, food historian
Presenting Organization
Topics
Trace the origins of cacao with food historian, Laura Ziman, beginning in the Mesoamerican galleries where you can see how cacao was used in special ways. Then observe how Europeans changed the way chocolate was consumed. View artifacts in the Colonial Silver collection made just for drinking chocolate and end with a discussion of chocolate today.