Hot Chocolate: From Indigenous American Rituals to Victorian Children's Breakfast
Monday, January 11, 2021 - 7:00pm to Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 7:45pm
Hot Chocolate: From Indigenous American Rituals to Victorian Children's Breakfast
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. Hosted on Zoom; free and open to all.
This program is a collaboration between The Field Library of Peekskill and the Highland Falls Public Library. Register here: http://bit.ly/38T102A.