Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

The cacao tree, which likely originated from South or Central America, naturally grows under the shade of other trees. But as demand for the crop increased worldwide and its cultivation spread to ...

We have the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica (which was made up of countries in what we now know as Central America ... It all starts with the cacao bean. Yes, we spelled that right - cacao is the ...