In the lush province of Esmeraldas, on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia, farmers are proud to say they produce "black gold". They are not talking about oil, Ecuador's main export, but cocoa ...

QUITO, Ecuador – Ecuador, where the fatty beans used to make chocolate have been grown since pre-Columbian times, is surpassing Brazil as Latin America’s top cocoa producer after boosting planting and ...

Ecuadorian chocolate is vastly underrated. Actually, Ecuador itself is vastly underrated. Before arriving in this country I have called home the past three months, Ecuador was barely on my radar (plus ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Somewhere in a tiny town nestled in the rugged Andean ...

QUITO, ECUADOR -- Most of the world’s chocolate today comes from America and Europe, and it's made from cacao (cocoa) beans grown in Africa. But at least one South American company wants to make the ...

A luxury brand of chocolate by the name of To ak takes the prize for purest and most expensive chocolate in the world. It’s fair trade, USDA organic-certified and exclusively sourced from rare cacao ...

WHILE THE EGYPTIANS were building pyramids, the Druids were hauling blocks to Stonehenge and the Chinese were mapping out their wall, Ecuadoreans were making drinks. But what they were imbibing may ...

The world is running out of chocolate. A scientist in Ecuador has come up with a solution. But if you love chocolate, you might not like it. And not it to start a panic, but the world is running low ...

In the lush province of Esmeraldas, on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia, farmers are proud to say they produce "black gold". They are not talking about oil, Ecuador's main export, but cocoa ...

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