{"id":181703,"date":"2026-02-17T17:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:43:06","slug":"culinary-journey-through-chocolate-in-seal-beach-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181703\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary journey through chocolate in Seal Beach \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a chocolate lover or you just like history, this is for you. The Orange County library is holding a free series of <a href=\"https:\/\/ocpl.org\/culinary-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Culinary History classes<\/a>, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbites.net\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maite Gomez-Rej\u00f3n of ArtBites<\/a> and the Hungry for History podcast, including the upcoming one at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21 at Los Alamitos-Rossmoor Library.<\/p>\n<p>The class will explore the history of cacao from its Mesoamerican beginnings to today, including how it was cultivated, traded, sweetened and became the chocolate we know today.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on space available, participants will also have a chance to make truffles. Space is limited to 25 people. So I\u2019d register now at 562-430-1048 and get there early. (Coming in April: The history of popcorn. Yum.) 12700 Montecito Road, Seal Beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/ocpl.org\/culinary-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ocpl.org\/culinary-history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re a chocolate lover or you just like history, this is for you. The Orange County library&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,12740,131,133,132,17306,611,86142,29597,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-181703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-free-and-cheap","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-los-alamitos","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-rossmoor","16":"tag-seal-beach","17":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}