Most chocolate comes from cocoa plants taken from Central America to Ghana and Ivory Coast
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Wild Chocolate
Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury Publishing)
I thought I knew the basics about the chocolate industry. Most comes from hundreds of thousands of small cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Many of these use child labour – a truth well hidden in the exquisite confections a lot of us are working our way through this January.
Rowan Jacobsen’s new book Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in search of cacao’s soul doesn’t tell this story in detail. Instead, Jacobsen, a science writer, spins a narrower tale…
