Resources for Further Learning for the book:
On the Chocolate Trail

A Socially Responsible Haggadah for a Chocolate Seder

Jewish Values and Chocolate Chart (PDF; prints on 11×17″ paper)

Map of the Sephardic Diaspora And Chocolate

Lesson Plans

(all chapter and page numbers refer to On the Chocolate Trail)

1. Lesson Plan I- Jews Brought Chocolate to the World
2. Lesson Plan II- Shopping for the Best Chocolate
3. Lesson Plan III- B’rachot for Chocolate and Chocolate Making

Selected responsa and Jewish texts related to chocolate, cocoa, or cacao

A search of the Responsa Project of Bar Ilan University for these terms yielded a number of items, as follows, used by permission (organized thematically):

• Blessings
• Fabrication
• Lab Testing
• Eating
• Passover
• Tithing
• Shabbat
• Full Text of Two Responsa

Detailed charts of citations and data for “Jews Dip into Chocolate in the American Colonial Period” (Chapter 3)

• “Negroes” Specialized in Chocolate Grinding
• Branding of Chocolate Prior to Baker’s
• Chocolate Making Implements
• Milling of Chocolate
• Negro Prince Updike Grinding Chocolate for Aaron Lopez
• Output of Mills
• Quality chocolate
• Silver
• The Title “Chocolate Maker”
• Women in the Colonial Chocolate Business