Most chocolate comes from cocoa crops taken from Central America to Ghana and Ivory Coast
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Wild Chocolate
Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury Publishing)
I assumed I knew the fundamentals in regards to the chocolate trade. Most comes from lots of of 1000’s of small cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Many of those use baby labour – a reality nicely hidden within the beautiful confections a variety of us are working our means by this January.
Rowan Jacobsen’s new guide Wild Chocolate: Throughout the Americas looking for cacao’s soul doesn’t inform this story intimately. As a substitute, Jacobsen, a science author, spins a narrower story…
