September 13th is International Chocolate Day. For today, Jared printed an image from a woodcut, made about 130 years ago, in the Lewis Winter Collection that has sparked a debate between those in our print shop exhibit. Did you chocolate was a quite desired commodity in California by the mid-19th Century? The history of chocolate can be traced to Mesoamerica where the Indigenous population had consumed cocoa for thousands of years for its medicinal qualities. Chocolate was introduced to Califor