Tampa Jewish Federation

During our Shabbat worship service author of "On the Chocolate Trail"  and scholar in residence,  Deborah R. Prinz’ will tell us about North American Colonial Traders Dip into Chocolate.  The Gomez and Lopez Stories.

In Colonial North America Sephardic refugee merchants such as Aaron Lopez in Newport Rhode Island, the Gomez family in New York, and others dipped deeply into trading, retailing and processing of chocolate