In his new podcast, “Obsessions: Wild Chocolate,” award-winning food and nature writer Rowan Jacobsen of Calais takes listeners into the depths of the rain forest in search of culinary gold: cacao.

The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread and Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao’s Soul Credit: Courtesy Like any self-respecting people who were privileged enough to spend ...

Food writer Jacobsen (Truffle Hound) traces in this thrilling chronicle chocolate’s “dark journey from regional delicacy to industrial commodity” and recent efforts to restore its original varietals.

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I thought I knew the basics about the chocolate industry. Most comes from hundreds of thousands of small cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Many of these use child labour – a truth well hidden in ...

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Rowan Jacobson’s book, Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao’s Soul, reveals the fascinating history, economics, and personalities inside the bean-to-bar chocolate industry. April ...