Free Cacao Workshop

Name: Free Cacao Workshop
Start: 2026-04-07T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-04-07T20:30:00-06:00
Location: 8030 S 1825 W, West Jordan, UT, 84088

Schedule

Tue Apr 07 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

8030 S 1825 W, West Jordan, UT, 84088 | West Jordan, UT

This Hobby 101 class is brought to you through a partnership with the County Library and the Utah Historical Society.
RSVP --> https://slcls.libnet.info/event/15886892.
This hour-long workshop is an introduction to the tradition of Zoque-Maya chocolate-making. Come experience cultural enrichment, ancestral food preparation, and try some cacao-based drinks.
Presented by: Esmeralda Torres and the Lopez Aquino Family of Chiapas, Mexico, and Utah.
This workshop explores preserving family food heritage and ancestral wisdom, focusing on culinary traditions. It features the Lopez Family's Maya and Zoque chocolate-making tradition, examining their ancestral recipes, ingredients, tools, and techniques to honor and celebrate their ancestors' resilience and love, fostering stronger participant identity.
The session also examines the common experience among Utah's native and diverse communities in preserving ancestral food preparation for family sustenance and generational knowledge. We will analyze similarities and differences in ancestral tools and the use of native versus non-native foods, addressing the challenges and resilience involved in upholding these family recipes as a way to preserve essential family values and unity.