Beer+Chocolate=Food of the Gods

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  Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 7:30-9:30
• Peabody Essex Museum
  East India Square, Salem, MA, USA 01970

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Long before it was a popular candy bar, chocolate was a beverage, or "food of the gods." Known to the ancient Maya as kakaw (cacao), this drink had profound ritual, economic, and social significance to this culture. Join George Schwartz, Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Research at PEM, and Alex Whitmore, cofounder of Taza Chocolate, on a tasting journey into the history, culture, and art of Maya chocolate beverages. Attendees will explore its origins as a fermented "beer" in Central America and its religious and social importance as a spiced drink to the Maya. Discover how it was, and still is, turned from bean to liquid ambrosia and through tasting we will see how it continues to inspire chocolatiers and brewers today.

Attendees will sample seven unique beers and Taza’s well renowned stone ground organic chocolate, and also try their hand at creating a drink in the style of the Maya. Maya inspired cuisine will be served.

Reserve tickets at: http://www.pem.org/calendar/event/297-beer_chocolate_food_of_the_gods

List of beers
Dogfish Head Theobroma, Southern Tier Choklat, Brasserie Fantôme Chocolat, Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout, Wells & Young’s Double Chocolate Stout, High & Mighty Two-Headed Beast

List of chocolate
Taza’s Stone Ground Chocolate - Chocolate Mexicano
Turtle Alley Handmade Chocolates - Stout Truffle and Chipotle Bark







Cost: $55/$65-member/nonmember
http://www.pem.org/calendar/event/297-beer_chocolate_food_of_the_gods

Contact

PEM Reservations
978-745-9500 x3011

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