Stories from the world of cacao.
HISTORY • ORIGINS • CRAFT • TASTE
BROWSE BY THEME
SERIES
6 PARTS
The Journey of Cacao
How a tree from the upper Amazon came to be grown across the tropics. Amazonia → Mesoamerica → Europe → Africa → Asia → the modern chocolate world.
ALL STORIES
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From Bean to Bar: How Chocolate Is Made
Between the cacao tree and the finished bar are ten stages, and at almost every one of them someone makes a choice…
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The 5,000-Year Journey of Chocolate
From the earliest traces of cacao in the upper Amazon to the Maya and Aztec, European chocolate houses, industrial chocolate and today’s…
