While many recent studies have suggested that chocolate might be good for you, there also is a long history of cacao being used as medicine. Philip K. Wilson and W. Jeffrey Hurst delved into the ...

Before the Europeans arrived in the Americas on the hunt for gold, the region’s indigenous people used money that literally grew on trees. The tiny brown seeds that came to be known as cacao beans ...

Chocolate is usually the go-to present for Valentine’s Day. The sweet and smooth treat is ubiquitous with decadence and intimacy. Marketers made chocolate a Valentine’s Day staple through strategic ...

Combining a colonial house and a contemporary addition, the new Museum of Cacao & Chocolate sits on a grisly Aztec souvenir.

Out of the rain forest : the journey of chocolate begins -- The cultivation of cacao : past and present -- Cacao and agriculture in Costa Rica -- Excursions into the natural history of cacao and cacao ...

Cacao has a deep cultural significance in Black communities, where there is ancestral wisdom in its history. The journey of cacao began with Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. It is a sacred plant and ...