Traditional Mayan chocolate drink

Toledo, Belize May 2010 As we left Eladio Pop’s cacao farm deep in the Belize rain forest headed toward his family’s homestead, it began to drizzle. We were ready for lunch after spending the morning tromping about his 30-acre jungle farm and learning about the growing cycle of the cacao bean. The bus wheezed up [...]

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Where does chocolate come from? Eladio Pop’s jungle farm.

Toledo, Belize After surviving a violent thunderstorm and a chorus of howler monkeys the first night we stayed in the Jungle House at Cotton Tree Lodge, I was ready for something a little more structured. On the schedule the next morning for Chocolate Week led by Taza Chocolate, was a trip to a local cacao [...]

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