Jews are famous wanderers. As a result, the Jewish people have played a huge role in global trade. There’s a facet to the story though that is quite uncommon. That would be the correlation of the Jewish and chocolate during the era of the Spanish Inquisition.

Spanish explorers were the ones who brought back chocolate to Spain, whereas Jews brought it to world cities such as New York and Amsterdam. The rest is history as well as the subject of Rabbi Deborah Prinz’s book, “On the Chocolate Trail.”

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