It's said that the tradition of high tea started as a way to bridge the gap between lunch and dinner for the nobility who ...

SAO PAULO, March 20 (Reuters) - Four Brazilian organizations on Thursday launched a fund aiming to raise 1 billion reais ($176 million) by 2030 for loans to small cocoa growers in the South ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

"Last year, chocolate pricing ... to regenerate their [cocoa] trees, have more productive trees that are planted, or fight the disease and viruses that are affecting the tree," Carodenuto said.

It takes five years for a tree to start producing the seeds that are processed into cocoa used to make chocolate and other delectable foods. Climate change raises the risks for farmers ...

A farmer holds an opened cocoa pod at a plantation in Tanjung Rejo, Lampung province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke ...

(The headnote says using oil instead of butter was typical of some Deep South recipes, especially peanut oil.) I lean on Dutch-process cocoa powder rather than unsweetened chocolate like this recipe ...