Cocoa trees grow within 20 degrees of the equator. There are two types of cocoa: forastero and criollo. Forastero is used for bulk cocoa and milk chocolate. Criollo beans produce the finest and most ...

For all the fame (and high prices) of Belgian and Swiss chocolate, you'd think they invented the stuff. Not so. Thank southern Mexico and northern Central America for the universally craved elixir.

There’s a popular quotation from writer Wayne Gerard Trotman: “As long as there is chocolate, there will be happiness. ” But how much does the average person really know about chocolate? The Morton ...

The cacao tree, once native to the equatorial American forest, has some exotic habits for a plant. Slender and shrubby, cacao has adapted to the shifting shadows of the understory and the life of an ...

Every piece of chocolate—whether it’s a humble Hershey’s bar or an upmarket Scharffen Berger bar—starts out as a tiny cacao bean. Some chocolatiers, like Francois Kwaku-Dongo—who grew up on a ...

It's a delicious sweet indulgence but how much do you really know about chocolate? Chocolate is the end result of a process that starts twenty degrees north or south of the equator and ends in our ...

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In this post-holiday period of New Year’s resolutions, the last thing you might be thinking about is more sweets. But a Quebec-based bistro is interested in helping Vancouverites to reframe their ...