There’s a reason that very few chocolatiers can claim to manufacture their chocolate from bean to bar. Transforming raw cacao beans to molded bars is a time- and space-consuming process that doesn’t ...

It must have taken an enormous amount of curiosity — or sheer need from hunger — for the first human to explore the possibilities of the cacao pod. Roughly the size of a football, the pod looks ...

Step into Juzhong Tan’s chocolate factory located in the University of Delaware’s O.A. Newton Building. Cacao beans clank against a cracking machine as Tan feeds them through to deshell them. The ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- When it comes to talking chocolate, no one loves it more than Sam Ratto. He's the co-owner of Videri Chocolate Factory right here in downtown Raleigh. "I want to keep making ...