Join MOFAD on November 8th at the Makers’ Studio in Chelsea Market for an evening with Terrence Collingsworth, founder and Executive Director of the International Rights Advocates and lawyer for some of the most high-profile human rights cases of children suffering abuses in cocoa supply chains, and journalist Simran Sethi, a former visiting fellow at the University of West Indies' Cocoa Research Centre and the author of Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love, named best food book of the year by Smithsonian.

Sethi will speak with Collingsworth about his work on the front lines defending international human rights cases against Nestle, Cargill, Mars, Hershey, and other major chocolate companies. We’ll have the chance to watch a clip from The Chocolate War, a 2022 documentary that illuminates Collingsworth’s fight against the problematic aspects of the chocolate industry.

We’ll finish the evening on a sweet note with Sethi leading a tasting of three chocolate bars from Askinosie, a Missouri-based company committed to direct trade and ethical business practices. Askinosie was named “The best chocolate in the United States” by Food & Wine and was an amicus party to Collingsworth's Supreme Court case.

Tickets include the cost of three bars of chocolate from Askinosie and a beverage.

Bittersweet is the first in a four-part series exploring Indigenous Foodways that will take place at the Makers’ Studio in Chelsea Market.