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>> peru is a country thats historically driven men mad, mad for gold, for coca, for its magical, ancient history. but now, theres something else drawing outsiders to its hidden mountain valleys. we love this stuff. we obsess about it, gorge on it, and fetishize it. im talking about chocolate. once a common treat, its now becoming as nuanced as fine wine, making the pursuit of the raw, good stuff all the more difficult. im joining that hunt in remotest peru, but not before ive re-immers...

Former News-Leader photographer Bob Linder accompanied chocolate-maker Shawn Askinosie to Ecuador for a feature in Ozarks Signature magazine.

Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa. About three-quarters of the world’s cocoa — the main ingredient in chocolate — are produced on cacao trees in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon.

Auro just won Silver at 2023's Cacao of Excellence Awards! Here are other award-winning Filipino brands that have been putting our local chocolate on the global map.

The project should help boost cacao exports from Colombia to global markets like the U.S.

The chocolate is made from bean to bar.

It's true for many of us that we can't remember a time before we drank a cup of coffee every day, but even the nation experienced a pre-coffee era.

Orange juice futures, cacao beans, and rice have hit all-time highs of late – while Chinese pork has slumped.

A novel way to deploy some cacao beans.

A novel way to deploy some cacao beans.