Tag: cocoa
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How Kokoa Kamili Put Tanzania On The Chocolate Map
While African coffees are prominent in the specialty market, high-quality cacao from the continent has lagged. For the most part, it’s a problem of reputation. Environmental and labor abuses in West African countries like Ivory Coast and Ghana often make headlines. Low-quality yields in East and Central Africa meant bean-to-bar producers have largely avoided using…
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Destigmatizing West Africa Cocoa
Has anyone seen a bean-to-bar chocolate made from cacao from Ivory Coast? It’s a legitimate question. We may have seen one from Bonnat at one point, but not anything else. It’s telling that the Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cacao producing nation is absent from the craft chocolate scene. This is because cocoa from West…
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Cacao vs Cocoa
Everybody has heard of cocoa, but is it the same as cacao? Isn’t it the same thing? Well, kind of. In the industry when referring to the raw materials that will become chocolate, the terms are used interchangeably. However, there is a bit of a difference, which we break down for you here below. The…