This is about as far as you can get from the world’s boutique chocolate shops. I’m hiking through dense, rain-forest-like vegetation near Venezuela’s central coast, shooing away mosquitoes and ...

Cocoa trees grow within 20 degrees of the equator. There are two types of cocoa: forastero and criollo. Forastero is used for bulk cocoa and milk chocolate. Criollo beans produce the finest and most ...