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Bittersweet history

01/10/2013 16:27 By AMY SPIRO

From the role chocolate has played in religion to its Nazi ties, Rabbi Deborah Prinz goes in search of the Jewish connection.

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For most of the past five years, Rabbi Deborah Prinz was living the dream. That is, if your dream is traveling around the globe hunting down the best chocolate the world has to offer.

And when she wasn’t sampling hot chocolate in Madrid or chocolate truffles in Paris, Prinz was buried in archives and history books, searching for links between Judaism and the universally loved sweet treat. Those years of research on the road and in books led to the publication of Prinz’s first book, On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao.

It all began close to six years ago, when Prinz was planning a European sabbatical trip with her husband, fellow rabbi Mark Hurvitz.

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Bittersweet history

From the role chocolate has played in religion to its Nazi ties, Rabbi Deborah Prinz goes in search of the Jewish connection.

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