Step into the rich history of chocolate with this hands-on workshop! Participants will craft, taste, and take home a seventeenth-century drinking chocolate recipe—a treat perfect for cozy winter evenings or holiday gifting. Along the way, we’ll delve into chocolate’s transformation from a Mesoamerican ritual to a European indulgence.

Tea is available nearly everywhere in the present day. However, in the early modern Western world, it was an exotic and luxurious beverage, often at the center of political turmoil, geographical exploration, and medical observation. Learn about this rich history of tea through a lecture and tasting of several teas available in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.