Like traditional chocolate, lab chocolate starts with a cacao pod. These pods are shaped like a football and can come in a variety of colors, green, orange, purple. California Cultured needs just a ...

Raven Hanna says chocolate has taken over her life. Photo by Jeremy Lutes. Her book, "One Cacao Tree: how to make chocolate from fresh cacao pods," walks readers through the process of making ...

Roses are red; violets are blue. I love flowers and chocolate, too!

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching o… ...

So scientists, entrepreneurs and chocolate-lovers are coming up with ways to grow cocoa and make the crop more resilient and more resistant to pests — as well as craft chocolatey-tasting cocoa ...