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Subject: [SavoryFare] Chocolate processing: A request for information
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:13:27 -0400
From: Jay Callaham >
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I think THIS is probably the best list for this topic!! It's been on
some others. Please read on.

Make sure all responses include Nick Westbrook at Fort Ticonderoga at:



Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing some info on this. I'm a
pure-bred, unreconstructed, unrehabilitated, unrepentant chocoholic!!

Jay

> Dear list members this was on the ALHFAM LIST ans we seem to have many
> people who might be able to help.
>
> Tw
>
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>
> Subject: Anyone for Chocolate?
> Date: Tuesday 06 April 2004 12:23 am
> From: "Tom Woods" >
> To: "ALHFAM List" >
>
> Hi ALHFAM listers,
>
> On behalf of living history colleagues and friends, Virginia and Nick
> Westbrook, from Ft. Ticonderoga, I am posting their request for
> information on > chocolate. You can post it to the list for
information purposes,
> but please also send it to Nick directly, since they are not
currently list
> members.
> Thanks,
> Tom Woods
>
>
> The history of the origins of chocolate and its adoption five centuries
> ago by European cultures has been explored in recent scholarship.
> But the story of North American imports, processing, sale and
> consumption is still largely unexplored. As part of a collaborative
> effort to interpret this story, Fort Ticonderoga would like to hear
> from food historians, scholars, or interested researchers who have
> an interest in exploring this topic. Please send letters of interest
> to Nicholas Westbrook, Director, Fort Ticonderoga, P.O. Box 390,
> Ticonderoga, NY 12883 or .