Five Courses Of Chocolate For Dinner

WOODBURY — New Morning Country Store will offer a special five-course dinner as a delicious dining alternative for the public and also a benefit event for Bent of the River Audubon Center. “The Sweet Truths of Chocolate” will be on Saturday, February 28.

New Morning Country Store’s executive chef, Carol Byer Alcorace, is creating a five-course dinner complete with exquisite chocolate desserts. Ms Alcorace was formerly the executive chef and catering manager for The Mattatuck Museum. The menu will include, among other items, cocoa bean soup, dark chocolate beet popes and chicken mole.

The event will be at The Old Woodbury Town Hall, at the corner of Main Street South (Route 6) and Mountain Road. The event will begin at 6:30 and is expected to run until around 10 pm.

Tickets are $45, and seating is limited. A 50 percent deposit is due by February 18 in order to reserve a space.

Also on the menu for the evening will be a lecture, “Chocolate: The Magical History Tour.” Mayan expert Michael Coe, PhD (anthropology professor emeritus at Yale and curator emeritus at The Peabody Museum, and co-author of The True History of Chocolate), and Philip Cohen, MD (an advisor to Ecco Bella, the creator of a new nutritional beauty line called Health By Chocolate), will present the lecture.

Audubon Center at Bent of the River is a 650-acre sanctuary and education center in Southbury that features 15 miles of hiking trails. The groups are open to the public daily from sunrise to sunset, and the center regularly offers special programs for all ages and many interests.

For additional information or to make a reservation for dinner contact Gene Banks at New Morning Store, 203-263-4686.