The Dominican Republic (DR) was ravaged by Hurricane Fiona in September, 2022, causing a devastating loss to 4,000 cacao farmers in the Hato Mayor and El Seibo regions of the island. There have been approximately 4,000 metric tonnes of cacao damaged by torrential rains in El Seibo alone. To help, The Learning Community International–a nonprofit […]
In this post, I’ve chosen to salute the best Trinidad chocolate, and salute the amazing women producing Trinidadian chocolate. Happy #InternationalWomensDay to them all! Trinidad specializes in growing fine flavour Trinitario cacao, from which its delicious chocolate is made. I will focus on the Cocoa Genebank and growing of cacao in Trinidad in a future
In my previous post, I was a little harsh on the commercial chocolate currently being made in Cuba at their government-run chocolate factory. But I did mention that there are individuals who are growing small amounts of cacao on their private properties and making a more pure and authentic form of tree to bar chocolate
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