The ice cream bean fruit tree (Inga edulis) produces large pods full of fluffy pulp that tastes like vanilla ice cream. It's ...

While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

Coffee and chocolate are everyday staples easily taken for granted. But a new Indianapolis festival is designed to raise ...

For members of the Sani Warmi collective in Amazonian Ecuador, the day begins before sunrise. They tend to the chacra — their ...

Dark chocolate is a delicious confection enjoyed by millions despite its inherent bitter flavor, but what is it that makes it ...

Oliver Koth-Kappus, co-founder of Kasama Chocolate in Vancouver, likens making bean-to-bar chocolate from cacao beans to distilling whisky from grains. A chocolatier, on the other hand, is like a ...

Oliver Coppeneur, a chocolate maker from Bad Honnef in Germany, has been in the business since the 1990s. At the moment, though, he's struggling due to rising prices for a key ingredient of his treats ...

Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to ...

Across West Africa’s cocoa heartland, Eddie Arthur has spent a quarter of a century traveling from farm to farm each day to ...

The Straits Times zooms into local produce through a microscope, uncovering beauty that goes unnoticed. Find out how many of ...

Nearly everyone loves chocolate. Increasingly, that includes those living in China, the world’s second most populous nation.