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A chocolatier has told how the increasing price of raw ingredients to make the sweet treats has made the last 12 months "the ...

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So before you start imagining cacao pods as the next health-food ... or whipping up a decadent cup of hot cocoa, let the experts handle the beans so you can focus on indulging in the flavor.

On the rainy side of Hawai‘i Island, Daeus Bencomo steps through fresh mud in his cowboy boots, rows of leafy cacao trees on ...

The crop — the raw, unprocessed form of cocoa beans — has two primary harvest ... After flowering, it takes about five to six months for the pods to mature. Once ripe, the pods are harvested ...

Fava beans also have nutritional advantages ... Beressi Golomb said, four tons of cocoa pods are required, using 2,000 trees ...

These pods are shaped like a football and can come in a variety ... These brownish flakes then get the same treatment as traditional cocoa beans — drying, roasting, grinding. But this all happens much ...

The beans are removed from the cocoa pod, collected, and fermented. These beans are then dried and roasted to produce nibs. These nibs are pressed or ground into cocoa liquor, a fluid, bitter form ...

Tis the season of green. But rather than "greens," we mean literally green. Jesse Murphy has shared many of his family's recipes with you from potatoes to potatoes (with some green mixed in), Irish ...