What's better than holiday hot chocolate? If just thinking about it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, well – that’s by design. Chocolate's big history sweeps across the globe, and today we’re going ...

There’s something about Howard-Yana Shapiro that inspires trust — at least when it comes to cacao. The author of “The History of Chocolate” (National Geographic Society, $20) is a Santa Claus ...

New archaeological evidence suggests humans were cultivating and consuming cacao—the crop from which chocolate is produced—as long as 5,300 years ago, which is 1,500 years earlier than previously ...

Several chocolate bars stacked on top of one another. - Connect Images/diana Miller/Getty Images Craft chocolate has boomed in popularity in recent years, and the market is forecast to continue ...

HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Mars Wrigley is pleased to announce that the Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Chocolate History Research Grant was awarded to ten educational and cultural ...

Not all chocolate is created equal. There's the mass produced stuff that gets handed out at Halloween, and nicer bars you can buy in a grocery store. Then there's specialty chocolate that you can only ...

When I heard where Five Mile Chocolate’s new origin bar—debuting today—was coming from, I was impressed and intrigued. Tamil Nadu in Southern India: not a place that is commonly associated with cacao.

Nothing sweetens a day like the best chocolates, whether you're gifting an assortment of truffles for the holidays or indulging in a unique single-origin bar as a treat to yourself. Giving chocolates ...

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Feb. 17—Did you know that M&M candies were developed by an estranged member of the Mars family, who created Mars candy bars? Or that M&Ms were once distributed primarily to military personnel? Those ...