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It's kind of hard to imagine life today without chocolate, and now we have a better idea of who we can thank for that. A team of researchers has traced back the origins of the cocoa tree to a single ...

My whole life has been chocolate, but no, my name is not Willy, but Pedro. My father grew cacao, the tree from which chocolate comes. He was a proud man and chose to grow the criollo variety of bean, ...