LIMA (Reuters) - Connoisseurs who take chocolate as seriously as sommeliers study wine are challenging the widespread use of an inferior cocoa pushed by the U.S. government in its war against drugs in ...

Peru boasts perfect conditions for growing coffee, including many climates and ecologic niches at 1,200 meters above sea level or higher. This environment is what accounts for the outstanding quality ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gabriela Vasquez co-owns El Gato Chocolates, a bean-to-bar chocolate company that sources cacao beans from the San Martin region ...

Cacao farmer Eduardo Gonzalez checks his plants in the jungle town of Lamas in Tarapoto, PeruMariana Bazo / Reuters / Corbis The certificate was only one of several that emerged from the prestigious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 29—WATERFORD — Esmeralda Bustamante left Peru over 20 years ago, but Peru hasn't left her. She carries with her the ...

Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his final voyage to the New World some 500 years ago. It took a while for Europeans to embrace the taste — one 16th-century Spanish missionary ...

In the forests surrounding Río Abiseo National Park, in the Peruvian Amazon region of San Martín, a burgeoning chocolate industry is gaining traction. After dedicating more than twenty years to the ...

There are few things cozier than sipping hot chocolate during the holidays, especially when you're with your family. Adrianna Adarme, author of three cookbooks and the creator of popular food blog A ...

On a Friday evening in late August, my husband and I stumbled upon a sandwich board on Hardwick’s Main Street that promised “Chocolate Upstairs.” We did what any chocolate lovers would do: We opened ...

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