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Between the makers of gourmet dark chocolate and the more mainstream confiseurs-chocolatiers, there are more chocolate shops in the City of Light—the Paris phone directory lists more than 300—than in any other city in… Read the rest

The ancient Mayans of Central America were the first to cultivate the cacao tree (theobroma cacao), which the Aztec people of present-day Mexico later called cacahuatl or xocolatl.

From its earliest known days, the cacao bean was used as a… Read the rest