Wild Chocolate overview: Nerve-racking story of reviving wild cocoa to make superb chocolate

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Most chocolate comes from cocoa vegetation taken from Central America to Ghana and Ivory Coast

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Wild Chocolate
Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury Publishing)

I assumed I knew the fundamentals in regards to the chocolate business. Most comes from lots of of hundreds of small cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Many of those use baby labour – a fact properly hidden within the beautiful confections quite a lot of us are working our approach by this January.

Rowan Jacobsen’s new e book Wild Chocolate: Throughout the Americas looking for cacao’s soul doesn’t inform this story intimately. As an alternative, Jacobsen, a science author, spins a narrower story…

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