TCHO on Chocolate

From a botanical perspective, cacao is striking because its flowers and fruits grow right off the trunk of the tree. I was impressed that its evolution goes back 10 million years, defying all kinds of odds, overcoming weather extremes and disease in tropical regions of Central and South America.

Culturally, the pre-Columbian Aztecs considered it so valuable they used the beans as currency. It was also sacred to the Mayans and other Mesoamerican groups; it still holds a high place spiritually in many indigenous societies.

From “When You Love Chocolate, This Isn’t Like Work” by Brad Kintzer as told to Perry Garfinkel for the New York Times; photo by Jennifer Davick

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