Andrew Fister, postdoctoral scholar in plant science, stands among cacao trees in the African country of Ivory Coast. Pods turning yellow and black are infected with black pod disease. Disclaimer ...

Now, the cacao is flourishing, producing colorful pods full of beans and nibs from which chocolate is made. A worker transports cacao pods to be husked. -- BRAD PAULSON photo “The neem and panax ...

Aside from the odd piece of See's Candy, molecular biologist Raven Hanna didn't grow up a chocoholic. On a trip to Belize more than a decade ago, she encountered cacao trees and learned how the Maya ...

Cacao pods, which grow directly from the trunk and branches of the cacao tree, contain seeds surrounded by a sweet-tasting pulp. (This photo of a cacao tree growing in Belize illustrates how these ...

Chocolate is made from the beans of cacao pods like this one In 2011, the government established a High-Value Crops Development Program to encourage cocoa production. "Growing cocoa let us build a ...

Looking around the room nervously, I said my prayers and drank the brew. Together, for the next three hours, we then sat in a guided meditation. Cacao pods growing big in Oaxaca state, Mexico. At the ...

Essayist and poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil explains the laborious process of cultivating vanilla and the fragile state of its ...

Mum inherited a small plantation from her father. She spent many hours helping my grandparents tend to the trees and harvest the cocoa pods - the raw ingredient that is eventually processed into ...

Perfect for the man who craves heat, this Advent calendar includes twelve 1.75-ounce hot sauce bottles to spice up the ...

When he isn’t writing, Sean is a cohead coach of the boxing team at his alma mater. PODS and U-Pack both feature nationwide availability and multiple container size options, but each provider is ...

Everybody knows it’s not Halloween without candy, but trick-or-treaters might find less chocolate filling their buckets this year. That’s because cocoa prices have more than doubled since the ...