Most chocolate is made from cacao plants harvested from Central America to Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
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Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury Publishing)
I thought I knew the basics about the chocolate industry. Most of it comes from hundreds of thousands of small-scale cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Many of them use child labor. This truth is well hidden in the delicious confectionery that many of us are toiling away this January.
Rowan Jacobsen’s new book Wild Chocolate: Traversing the Americas in Search of the Soul of Cacao I won’t go into details about this story. Instead, science writer Jacobsen spins a narrower story…
