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Promo video for Ah Cacao Chocolate Café in Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya, Mexico. Shows the origins of real chocolate in the tropical cacao plantations of Tabasco and Chiapas, and a freshly opened cacao pod, exposing the beans.

While staying at CottonTree Lodge, we toured Juan Cho's organic cacao farm in San Felipe, southern Belize. He is a member of Sustainable Harvest and teaches farmers how to better use their land and maximize their income by applying organic farming methods. We had lunch at his home with his mother, wife and children. I see great things in his future.

Short film on how cacao beans are processed from the cacao fruit. Filmed in the Peruvian jungle in 2001. Cacao is converted into cocoa and then into chocolate.

Chocolate making, the entire process at Vesubio in Zaachila, Oaxaca. In this case, appears to be cinnamon, cacao and sugar. I don't see any almonds in the mix. Richer mixes also will include almonds. Of course, almonds and cinnamon both have their roots in North Africa and were brought to the new world. To my.... more

America has a taste for chocolate, but at what environmental and social cost to tropical countries where cacao is grown? Earthwatch volunteers working in the forests of Belize this summer will investigate how cacao farming can rescue the environment and economy of this tropical paradise.

Volunteers from the organisation WWOOF (World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) in May 2007 who worked with a charming family of the farm La Iguana Chocolate in Costa Rica, emptying cacao fruits after picking them with machetes. The man with machete is the owner of the farm, on the left a volunteer from Aruba and right from California USA.

Mixco tiene dentro de sus tradiciones la fabricacion del Chocolate. Para la elaboración de la bebida del chocolate, primero se corta la pocha que contiene las semillas de cacao, se extraen y se secan al sol, regadas éstas sobre un lienzo o sobre un pedazo de lámina de zinc. Seguidamente, se tuestan en un comal de.... more

Chocolate making at Musee Du Cacao Et Du Chocolat (Chocolate Museum) in Brussels, Belgium

For many of us, being away from home is the time when we fall down on our healthy eating. David wolfe shares a few super simple and highly nutritious solutions for being on the road and staying healthy. From: http://www.lifeandlove.tv chocolate

Progetto Chocolatino per lo sviluppo dellòa coesione sociale e produttiva del settore cacao e del cioccolato latinoamericano