LIMA (Reuters) - Connoisseurs who take chocolate as seriously as sommeliers study wine are challenging the widespread use of an inferior cocoa pushed by the U.S. government in its war against drugs in ...

Peru boasts perfect conditions for growing coffee, including many climates and ecologic niches at 1,200 meters above sea level or higher. This environment is what accounts for the outstanding quality ...

Gabriela Vasquez co-owns El Gato Chocolates, a bean-to-bar chocolate company that sources cacao beans from the San Martin region of Peru, where she's from. Some of Gabriela Vasquez’s favorite memories ...

Real Chocolate in Cape Coral is more than its name implies. True, the shop sells gem-like pieces of exquisite chocolate, and it does offer baked goods such as cakes and cookies. But its menu also ...

The certificate was only one of several that emerged from the prestigious Salon du Chocolat in Paris, the annual summit of the world’s master chocolatiers. But it may be enough to start a revolution ...

On a Friday evening in late August, my husband and I stumbled upon a sandwich board on Hardwick’s Main Street that promised “Chocolate Upstairs.” We did what any chocolate lovers would do: We opened ...

Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his final voyage to the New World some 500 years ago. It took a while for Europeans to embrace the taste — one 16th-century Spanish missionary ...

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