First-hand stories, useful guides and the people and places behind them.
Before chocolate reaches a shop, a gift box or a kitchen, somebody has to grow the cocoa.
Is Lindt organic? Its Lindor line uses 100% organic cacao from this Salcedo farm, so I’ll give Lindt one point. One. The honest verdict, with the receipts.
Victoria of But First Cacao in Tbilisi shares her chocolate tasting, from Peru and Belize to aroma, melting and texture, with context for her explanations.
Peter shows how Antigua House of Chocolate turns Dominica cocoa into paste and slabs, with his own words on machinery, ingredients and the products he makes.
Isaias describes the harvesters and other workers behind La Chocolate Jungle’s cacao, and shares his personal connection with a tree on the land.
A Colombian cacao grower turned down offers to triple her sales. Her take on conscious consumerism, the fisherman allegory and knowing what is actually.