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chunk. chris, me, and eric each get a slice out of every bar. that leaves this much, which the retailer takes. chef bleeding-heart hippie here has already convinced me to give whatever meager profits we make off our first bar to a local charity. so, what's unusual about these pods, these beans? >> chris: the extremely high quality of flavor. >> anthony: thought not around for a while. >> chris: this was what almost all chocolate was made of, over 120 years ago. >> anthony: right. >> chris: and now, it's, uh, making a giant comeback. i mean, as a chocolatier, this is a once in a lifetime find. >> anthony: now, about 40% of the beans from these trees have got white cacao beans mixed in. the rest are purplish in color. but we've heard of an ultra rare group of trees elsewhere, further up the mountains, that produce pods with 100% all pure white beans. and that's something me and eric are very interested in down the road. but for now, don fortunato's daughter, johanna, has prepared

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>> eric: yeah. >> anthony: and which is pretty much what we're here to look at. >> eric: yes, absolutely. >> anthony: where, where, where it comes from, what's involved. eric ate some of chris's chocolate, heard about these wild cacao trees he was sourcing from in peru, and promptly got me involved in this designer chocolate bar business. i'm rather famously a guy that i don't really -- i never really gave a -- about desserts. you, on the other hand, you, you are -- you eat chocolate every day. >> eric: yeah, i love chocolate. yeah, every day. >> anthony: and so, here we are, three men and a chocolate bar. good thing for the world or exploitative opportunism? yet to be determined. what do i, after all, know about chocolate? next to freaking nothing. >> eric: it's good like that, right? >> anthony: yeah, like oliver twist there, uh, yeah, we used to eat it like that in the orphanage. [ laughter ]

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us a traditional peruvian mountain meal. >> chris: wow. >> anthony: oh, whoa. >> johanna: juanes. >> eric: juanes? >> johanna: juanes. >> anthony: juanes are rice dumplings with boiled egg, chicken, and achote inside. wow. >> eric: this is amazing. >> anthony: mm. >> eric: buonissimo. [ johanna speaking spanish ] >> anthony: mm. mm-hmm. >> anthony: and not surprisingly, some cuy, or guinea pig, of which there seems to be many around for the taking, this preparation served with a cacao sauce. oh, that's good. all of this food is delicious. so, chocolate, particularly our chocolate, it's a luxury food item, right? >> eric: yes. >> anthony: this is an area that's abundant with coffee, chocolate, fruit. how's life for the locals? [ don speaking spanish ] >> eric: he says that, 20 years ago, 25 years ago, it was easier for him. he was planting, uh, soybeans. >> anthony: right. >> eric: and coffee. and he was making much more money.

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including, and most interesting to us, a strain of cacao previously thought to be almost extinct. a few years ago, the valley's cacao trees were genetically tested at a usda lab and proven to have identical dna to one of the rarest forms of cacao in the world, this stuff, the real deal, pure nacionale. don fortunato is our cacao connection, a farmer whose family has been working these mountains for over 40 years. >> chris: so they're just absolutely beautiful when they start out. absolutely beautiful. >> anthony: really kooky looking pods as they just come right off the trunk of the tree. >> chris: this -- >> anthony: they sorta look like somebody, you know, glued them to the side of a tree, you know. this is a once a year crop? >> chris: it goes continuously, but this is the peak season. >> eric: see the way it comes out? try that. like take one in your mouth. bite it, and you see those -- the nibs inside? those are the cocoa nibs.

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to education. >> yes. >> so did we do the right thing? is it all right for two new yorkers to make money however much or little off the work of struggling farmers in a far away land? fortune fato, chris, all the way down the line, seemed pretty happy to be doing what they're doing, but do i want to be in the chocolate business? that's something i'm going to have to have to figure out. for now one last thing needs to be done to fulfill our shaymanic obligations. a bridge, a bundle of unique lip toss leaves, a badly working lighter, got to get right. >> do you have a lighter >> we need to burn this stuff

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good luck. we're headed for what looks like a bar on the other side. i would like to do to punta cerveza, por favor. [ eric laughs ] >> anthony: and let me tell ya, it's quite a ride. >> eric: i'll go the last. >> chris: yeah. >> eric: hey, water inside the boat, look, look, look. the boat is sinking. oh. oh. >> anthony: you gotta go down and then up just right. we make it to the other side reasonably dry. beer? the maranon canyon is home to a wide range of species,

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eric and i are heading to the maranon canyon, eight hours by car from chiclayo, well into the andean highlands. ♪ on the way, we stop for lunch and to meet up with this guy. >> eric: uh, you want a sopa de gallina? >> anthony: gallina, si. >> eric: sopa de -- >> chris: si. >> eric: tres sopas de gallina, por favor. >> anthony: chris curtin, master chocolatier, and our business partner in this knuckleheaded adventure. >> anthony: one of life's great joys, eating at a peruvian market. >> eric: i love markets for breakfast. it's nice. >> anthony: so, sopa de gallina, basically a hen soup. >> eric: si, gracias, si. >> anthony: mm. that's good. where in the world does chocolate come from? >> chris: well, 45%, of course, comes from the ivory coast in africa, but we don't deal in those beans just because of political situations. >> anthony: there's this stuff, spe -- the special chocolate.

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>> eric: yes, absolutely. >> anthony: where, where, where it comes from, what's involved. eric ate some of chris's chocolate, heard about these wild cacao trees he was sourcing from in peru, and promptly got me involved in this designer chocolate bar business. i'm rather famously a guy that i don't really -- i never really gave a -- about desserts. you, on the other hand, you, you are -- you eat chocolate every day. >> eric: yeah, i love chocolate. yeah, every day. >> anthony: and so, here we are, three men and a chocolate bar. good thing for the world or exploitative opportunism? yet to be determined. what do i, after all, know about chocolate? next to freaking nothing. >> eric: it's good like that, right? >> anthony: yeah, like oliver twist there, uh, yeah, we used to eat it like that in the orphanage. [ laughter ] but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost.

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[ don speaking spanish ] >> eric: gracias. >> chris: you guys can cook. >> anthony: some say. >> eric: sometimes. [ don speaking spanish ] >> eric: he is the only guy who has the white cacao. he ask all the farmers of the village here to do exactly what he has done, so the other farmers are starting to copy him. >> anthony: right. >> eric: and he's happy because it's going to bring wealth in the village, in the valley, in the community. >> anthony: afterwards, don makes a traditional unsweetened hot chocolate preparation -- ground cacao nibs and hot water, no milk, no sweeteners, no nothing, just like the ancient kings liked it. ah, here we go. gracias. ah, the real deal. and this is what they -- they

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>> chris: which is a rarity. >> anthony: okay. so these are the only known all-white 100% pure nacionale? >> chris: pure nacionale. >> anthony: okay. and why is that good? >> chris: it's a new variety and gives different, uh, flavor profiles to it. >> anthony: uh, a good flavor profile? >> chris: yes. of course. >> anthony: i am assuming, because i just humped up a huge mother -- hill. excuse me, kids. >> chris: yes. >> anthony: oh. machete? >> eric: don't cut your fingers, man. >> anthony: okay. >> eric: yeah, that's it. >> chris: there we go. >> anthony: porcelana. >> eric: all white. >> anthony: remember the shaman? well, we still have stuff to do with that package he gave us. we do, presumably, want a good

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