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Tastings: Chocolate From Around the World 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
2019-01-22 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-23 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-24 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-25 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-26 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-27 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-28 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-29 11:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | The Hershey Story, 63 West Chocolate Ave., Hershey, PA, 17033, United States
Sample a flight of warm drinking chocolates from around the world!
From fruity African chocolate flavors to Indonesian chocolate with caramel overtones, come hone your skills as a cocoa connoisseur… or simply enjoy a taste of indulgence. Tastings at The Hershey Story is a treat for your taste buds and the perfect way to immerse yourself in the sweet world that inspired Milton Hershey.
The Hershey Story also offers our tastings experience to kids! While the adults are sampling exotic warm drinking chocolate from around the world, kids will get their own mug of warm milk and a chocolate stirring lolly — perfect for transforming their milk into something delicious!
Learn more at Tastings.

Tastings: Chocolates from around the world Open from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
2019-01-22 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-23 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-24 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-25 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-26 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-27 11:30 - 15:30, 2019-01-28 11:30 - 15:30
Sample a flight of warm drinking chocolates from around the world!
From fruity African chocolate flavors to Indonesian chocolate with caramel overtones, come hone your skills as a cocoa connoisseur… or simply enjoy a taste of indulgence. Tastings at The Hershey Story is a treat for your taste buds and the perfect way to immerse yourself in the sweet world that inspired Milton Hershey.
The Hershey Story also offers our tastings experience to kids! While the adults are sampling exotic warm drinking chocolate from around the world, kids will get their own mug of warm milk and a chocolate stirring lolly — perfect for transforming their milk into something delicious!

Chocolate Lab classes starting at 11:45 a.m.
2019-01-22 11:45 - 14:45, 2019-01-24 11:45 - 14:45
Chocolate Lab tickets are available on a first come – first served basis and may be purchased at The Hershey Story admissions desk on the day of the class. Space is limited. Children must be at least 4 years old to enter the Lab.
11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Art of Chocolate
Whether it’s milk, white or dark, making chocolate is a work of art. Learn the origin of chocolate and what are the ingredients used in each of its varieties. While getting the inside scoop on what makes chocolate so tasty, you will create your own “artwork” using three types of chocolates.
2:00 to 2:45 p.m.
Planet Chocolate
Learn some delicious geography by finding out more about the many places around the globe where cocoa beans are grown. You will be guided to recognize differences in cocoa beans’ appearance and taste and make your own unique bar to take home.

Chocolate Lab classes starting at 11:30 a.m.
2019-01-23 11:00 - 15:15, 2019-01-24 11:00 - 15:15, 2019-01-25 11:00 - 15:15, 2019-01-26 11:00 - 15:15, 2019-01-27 11:00 - 15:15, 2019-01-28 11:00 - 15:15, 2019-01-29 11:00 - 15:15
Chocolate Lab tickets are available on a first come – first served basis and may be purchased at The Hershey Story admissions desk on the day of the class. Space is limited. Children must be at least 4 years old to enter the Lab.
11:30 to 12:15 a.m.
Chocolate By Design
What makes dark chocolate dark and white chocolate white? This class will answer those questions and give you a rare look at a real cocoa pod, beans and nibs, and other ingredients of chocolate. After getting the inside scoop on what makes chocolate so tasty, you will create your own “abstract art” using three types of chocolates.
1:00 to 1:45 p.m.
Planet Chocolate
Learn some delicious geography by finding out more about the many places around the globe where cocoa beans are grown. You will be guided to recognize differences in cocoa beans’ appearance and taste and make your own unique bar to take home.
2:30 to 3:15 p.m.
Build a Bar
Follow in Milton Hershey’s footsteps as you design your own candy bar. Discover the business behind the product as you choose ingredients to add based on flavor, appearance and your own preferences.

Chocolate Lab classes starting at 11:45 a.m.
2019-01-23 11:45 - 14:45, 2019-01-25 11:45 - 14:45, 2019-01-28 11:45 - 14:45
Chocolate Lab tickets are available on a first come – first served basis and may be purchased at The Hershey Story admissions desk on the day of the class. Space is limited. Children must be at least 4 years old to enter the Lab.
11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Chocolate by Design
Milton Hershey developed his unique formula using a hand-selected blend of cocoa beans. Discover where this fruit comes from, and how is harvested and processed to become the chocolate we all love. Choose from a variety of ingredients and design your own flavorful chocolate treat.
2:00 to 2:45 p.m.
Planet Chocolate
Learn some delicious geography by finding out more about the many places around the globe where cocoa beans are grown. You will be guided to recognize differences in cocoa beans’ appearance and taste and make your own unique bar to take home.

Hershey Area All Things Diversity
2019-01-23 17:30 - 19:25
This is a free event, registration is required.
To learn more about these events, and general diversity topics, please follow Hershey Area All Things Diversity on Facebook.
Hershey Area – All Things Diversity is a free series of programs coordinated by Derry Township and The Hershey Story, The Museum on Chocolate Avenue. The January installment will feature Dr. Ali Michael who will present on the topic of micro-aggressions.
Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the co-founder and director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators, and the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry and Education (Teachers College Press, 2015), winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. She is co-editor of the bestselling Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories (2015, Stylus Press) and The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys (2018, Corwin Press). She also sits on the editorial board of the journal Whiteness and Education. Ali teaches in the mid-career doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, as well as the Graduate Counseling Program at Arcadia University. In the 2017-18 school year, she will hold the Davis Visiting Professorship at Ursinus College. Ali’s article, What do White Children Need to Know About Race?, co-authored with Dr. Eleonora Bartoli in Independent Schools Magazine, won the Association and Media Publishing Gold Award for Best Feature Article in 2014. She may be best known for her November 9, 2016 piece What Do We Tell the Children? on the Huffington Post, where she is a regular contributor.
For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations based on a disability, please contact Amy Bischof at abischof@HersheyStory.org or 717-520-5591. Seven business days advance notice of need for accommodations is requested.
This program is underwritten by Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine, The Hershey Company and Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company.
Schedule of Events:
5:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Light Dinner
6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Presentation
7:15 p.m. – 7:25 p.m. Dessert

Chocolate Lab classes starting at 11:30 a.m.
2019-01-26 11:30 - 15:15, 2019-01-27 11:30 - 15:15
Chocolate Lab tickets are available on a first come – first served basis and may be purchased at The Hershey Story admissions desk on the day of the class. Space is limited. Children must be at least 4 years old to enter the Lab.

11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Art of Chocolate
Whether it’s milk, white or dark, making chocolate is a work of art. Learn the origin of chocolate and what are the ingredients used in each of its varieties. While getting the inside scoop on what makes chocolate so tasty, you will create your own “artwork” using three types of chocolates.

1:00 to 1:45 p.m.
Planet Chocolate
Learn some delicious geography by finding out more about the many places around the globe where cocoa beans are grown. You will be guided to recognize differences in cocoa beans’ appearance and taste and make your own unique bar to take home.

2:30 to 3:15 p.m.
Chocolate by Design
Milton Hershey developed his unique formula using a hand-selected blend of cocoa beans. Discover where this fruit comes from, and how is harvested and processed to become the chocolate we all love. Choose from a variety of ingredients and design your own flavorful chocolate treat.
