* Liffe July trades at premium to future-dated contracts * Exporters cautious on sales contracts for early 2012/13 season ...
Reuters | Posted 04.26.2012
* Peruvian gourmets see native cocoa as having strong future * CCN-51 cocoa developed in Ecuador in 1960s ...
Ernest Istook | Posted 04.04.2012
Mr. Obama is using flimsy and misleading numbers to justify his anti-oil and gas energy policy, and his mega-billion dollar subsidies for "green energy" and "green jobs." So perhaps it's time for him to pivot to another basic necessity, like chocolate.
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 04.02.2012
What are Easter, Passover, or even just spring without a little chocolate? New York has many places to buy that sweet treat. Here are some favorites.
Barry Parkin | Posted 04.17.2012
Again this year, millions of people are enjoying National Chocolate Lovers' Month, having just celebrated the high holiday for chocolate aficionados -- Valentine's Day. But what about the month of February in the year 2020?
Cheryl Carlesimo | Posted 04.15.2012
Every Valentine's Day, our thoughts turn to love, and flowers, and well, chocolate.
Michelle Chen | Posted 02.15.2012
The taste of hot cocoa or a chocolate bar is one of the classic pleasures of being a kid. But chocolate is a bitter harvest for countless children in West Africa, who spend their days towing around machetes, hacking the cocoa pods that will be made into sweets
Kwei Quartey | Posted 02.05.2012
Sub-Saharan Africa produces 70-74 percent of the world's cocoa beans. Should anything wipe out the cocoa crop from either of these producer nations, there is no other country that could quickly take up the slack.
Kitchen Daily | Posted 12.02.2011
Hot chocolate mixes can really run the gamut in quality -- there are the anemic powdered-milk-filled paper packets, the mid-range canisters flavored w...
Kitchen Daily | Posted 11.20.2011
Every Friday, we select a question from our Facebook fans and answer it in this weekly column. This week, we explain the difference between Dutch-proc...
The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 12.03.2011
Chocolate lovers, embrace those chocoholic fixes now. A recent report from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture predicts it could become ...
Anneli Rufus | Posted 08.20.2011
This is my pudding theory: we love pudding because it's basically a milkshake that can't get away. We love pudding because it's ice cream that won't melt. We love pudding because it's candy we can eat with spoons.
Anneli Rufus | Posted 05.25.2011
A "food crisis" is afoot. It's becoming ever more obvious in supermarkets and restaurants, and now -- because of political strife in the cocoa-producing Ivory Coast -- this food crisis is allegedly about to kill Easter.
AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 05.25.2011
JOHANNESBURG — Some of the cocoa in that Valentine's Day chocolate probably came from a West African country where the man in power for a decade...
Regina Varolli | Posted 05.25.2011
The worst forms of child labor, even children that have been trafficked into slavery, are prevalent in the growing and harvesting of cacao in West Africa.
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011
Some of our most basic purchases are produced by children. Though hard data is scant, it's estimated that there are 115 million children worldwide in ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — A report says West Africa's cocoa industry is still trafficking children and using forced child labor despite nearly a de...
AOLNews.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Two competing studies have unlocked the cacao tree's complete genome, which could yield a stable supply of chocolate beans and could one day lead to t...
Chow.com | Posted 05.25.2011
How do you eat dark chocolate? Well, put it in your mouth and chew, of course. It's creamy, sweet, bitter, and probably very enjoyable. But what if yo...
Financial Times | Posted 05.25.2011
A London hedge fund has swept up a large chunk of the world's stocks of cocoa beans, helping to drive prices of the basic ingredient of chocolate to t...
Jerry Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011
Mars Inc. is expanding its test market for its new goodnessKnows dark chocolate, fruit and nut snack beyond Boulder into the Denver area, with TV adve...
Posted 05.25.2011
Just last month, Cadbury's CEO urged shareholders to hold tight and go for sustainability because he believed that the company's strong ethical code w...
Huffington Post | Lindsay Armstrong | Posted 05.25.2011
In case you haven't noticed, Baby, it's cold outside! We at HuffPost Green suggest warming up with a cup of organic, fair trade cocoa, coffee or tea....
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 11.17.2011
It might not be much of a surprise when we read about how eating broccoli can lower the risk of certain cancers, or how loaded with antioxidants fruit...
Dr. Nicholas Perricone | Posted 11.17.2011
The darker the chocolate, the greater the cocoa content and thus, the higher the health-promoting flavonoid content.
Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012