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...Anna R. Rosenblum ’06, the Israel Fest coordinator, explained that the event is a “non-political celebration of Israeli culture” and aims to expose students to the many sides of Israel...
...Rosenblum reacted to the potential space conflict by agreeing to turn off Israel Fest’s upbeat Hebrew pop music during the rally and by encouraging members of Hillel to attend both events. Wearing a pink bandanna herself, she chose to prominently display a relevant informational poster about gay rights in Israel at the front of the Israel Fest tent...
...perhaps the most pressing issue for Rosenblum is not how chocolate came to Europe, which company prepares it better, or where to get the best mole. It is how cacao is grown and the way the chocolate market functions from cacao pod to couverture. To answer this question, Rosenblum travels to the most common sources of cacao—including Venezuela and what he calls West Africa’s “chocolate coast...
...Tome and Principe, two islands that compose a former Portuguese colony south of Nigeria, Rosenblum visits the cacao plantations of Claudio Corallo, who, like all cacao-growers, loses 21 percent of his crop to disease and 25 percent to pests. His house has no electricity, and his day starts at 5 a.m. and lasts past sundown. Despite this, Corallo’s situation is probably preferable to the backbreaking labor his employees endure. And yet he sees few of the tremendous profits collected by the large chocolate companies that compete for his beans...
...Chocolate” has any flaw, it is that the information is too scattered. From Mesoamerica, Rosenblum jumps to France and then back to Mexico and then to France again. Though some chapters focus primarily on growers, information about cacao cultivation is also woven into other sections of the book. Sometimes it is difficult to keep track of Rosenblum’s journey...