Ecuador is the king of fine chocolate, known as Cacao. Sixty percent of quality cocoa beans used in Cacao are found in Ecuador. One of the blessings of these chocolate purveyors found is Cacao is ...

Top 3: Chocolate stops in Quito. Pacari Chocolate Experience. Take a tour of Ecuador via its chocolate flavours and varieties in Quito’s hippie-chic La Floresta neighbourhood. $10 (£7.70) per ...

In Ecuador, this kind of local cacao-upcycling know-how helped Blue Stripes get started. Brenner was at a Los Angeles cafe when he first learned the cacao plant could do more than just make chocolate.

In Ecuador, researchers are conserving the genetic legacy of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), the raw material of chocolate. Cesar Guillermo Tapia Bastidas, head of Ecuador's national department of ...

Ecuador grows some of the world's best cocoa but does it make the best chocolate, asks the BBC's Irene Caselli?

In Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a global shortage of the main ingredient in chocolate feeds a price bonanza.

For 25 years after that, the generals, the bankers and Liberals gave Ecuador “chocolate prosperity,” based on rich cacao plantations. Paris became the mecca of the planters, ...

Mindo Chocolate Makers is a bean-to-bar chocolatier based in Dexter with an Ann Arbor store at 206 N. 4th Ave. ... The business also recently received four honors at the Ecuador Chocolate Awards.

The same rules apply to pairing chocolate with tea as chocolate with wine, a tea enthusiast told Fox News Digital. Here's why tea might be a surprising choice.

Chocolate with sea salt or chocolate-covered popcorn would go best with matcha tea, which is made from green tea leaves and has a frothy bitterness, she explained. 4 Experts say chocolate paired ...