You may wonder: how did chocolate help define American Jews? Through chocolate, we see that Jews were part of America since its earliest days. Well, since 1701 at least, Jews in the Colonies made part of their living through chocolate. Several Sephardim, leaders of...
Sweet Treat is a delicious gastronomic adventure into the history and resilience of American Jewish chocolate making. This exhibition invites you to follow the chocolate trail to America, a scrumptious journey through time and place. Chocolate gives us a lens...
When I nibbled on chocolate at the Cyclones Game in Coney Island the other day, I felt as though I had hit a triple header of Jewish life in America. Not only was it Jewish Heritage Night at Maimonides Stadium (resonant of Jewish greats like Hank Greenberg and Sandy...
Thank you to the following for their running these reviews and interviews about The Boston Chocolate Party: *At the Sydney Taylor Shmooze, Shirley Reva Vernick recommended The Boston Chocolate Party as a "robust contender for the Sydney Taylor Book Award." She...
I was delighted to be interviewed by Deborah Kalb recently; she agreed that I could cross-post here: Deborah R. Prinz is the author, with Tami Lehman-Wilzig, of the new children's picture book The Boston Chocolate Party. She also has written the book On the Chocolate...
Celebrate the themes of freedom represented by the coincidence of the Boston Tea Party occurring on the last night of Hanukkah in 1773. Here are some suggestions, inspired by The Boston Chocolate Party: • Design a chocolatey invitation for guests. Copy and paste...
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I am very excited to share that The Boston Chocolate Party, a picture book co-authored with award-winning children's book writer, Tami Lehman-Wilzig, will be on the shelves on October 4, 2022. Order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Target. New England,...
Having just eaten my daily portion of chocolate covered coffee beans, I am primed to consider the questions I hear about coffee when I teach on the chocolate trail. How do the two foods really differ, other than taste? I think back to when the layout for On the...
Sephardi Jews contributed to the availability of drinking chocolate when that became a very popular substitute for politicized tea in North America around the time of the 1773 Boston Tea Party. The Gomez family members (NYC) and Aaron Lopez (Newport) were among the...
This past April we managed a return visit to CoCo Chocolatier, as we settled into Williamsburg, Virginia, for some research about Colonial chocolate at the Rockefeller Library. A break from the data bases of early historical newspapers and library took us to...