Simply having a preference for cocoa percentage in chocolate isn't enough to narrow down your choices to the perfect bar. Our favorite chocolate confections can now also come with labels such as ...

The cacao tree is a prima donna, growing only within 10 degrees latitude of the Equator, where it thrives in the deep, moist soil of lowland tropical forest. Young cacao trees demand shade, clinging ...

As Colombia is known for coffee, and Chile for it’s fine wine, Ecuador is the king of fine chocolate, known as Cacao. What’s incredible about the industry is that chocolatiers from the world over work ...

There’s a reason that very few chocolatiers can claim to manufacture their chocolate from bean to bar. Transforming raw cacao beans to molded bars is a time- and space-consuming process that doesn’t ...

Life might be like a box of chocolates, but it was thinking outside of that box that brought our area its first bean-to-bar chocolate makers. In 2016, Sara Nelson began visiting Costa Rica to learn ...