Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) There are technological and biological wonders inside the ...

Many chocolate lovers already know that cacao is the heart of every chocolate treat. But cacao is more than just flavor. It ...

Cocoa and cacao come from the same plant but are not interchangeable. Learn the differences in processing, nutrition, and how ...

Cacao has long been a sought-after raw material for the worlds food industry. At first glance, it therefore seems surprising that biology knows little about the pollination of the cacao tree – ...

Wayne Gerard Trotman Over the past several years I have written here about the impact of climate change on many of our ...

For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao — the plant chocolate comes from — was believed to be even more divine to ancient Mayas. The Maya considered cacao beans to be a gift from the ...

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte (PIA) — A family cacao farm has evolved into Cocoa Kraftique, a new tablea producer led by ...

Anytime you snap a bar of chocolate, sink your teeth into a Reese's or sip Swiss Miss from a mug, the cacao that makes up the best part of each of those sweet treats likely came from within 20 degrees ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...