Let’s be honest — most of us love chocolate. We enjoy it in ice cream, cakes, candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies, and ...

Stephanie Villegas uses a traditional comal to roast cacao while carefully tending to the fire. (Nalani Hernandez-Melo / For De Los) Making chocolate is a sacred process, particularly for descendants ...

The small group of student interns filed into the potting room, a cool space on a warm Lyman Conservatory day, and arranged themselves around a white platter. A large slab of chocolate was waiting on ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...

As Halloween revelers prepare to feast on chocolate, a new study from an international team of researchers, including the University of British Columbia, is pushing back the origins of the delicious ...

You may think you know all there is about chocolate, but cacao beans are only part of the story. With a rich history, cacao ...

Making chocolate is a sacred process, particularly for descendants of the ancient Mesoamerica, and for those looking to reconnect with ancestral practices, like Stephanie Villegas of Xochitl Vegan, a ...