Once upon a time there was a Peruvian cocoa bean...
Hello, you big heart! Today I want to tell you a story. It's about a Peruvian cocoa bean. Or even better: It tells you its story itself... It's dark, wet and sticky. It's cramped around me. And somehow I find that nice. To be surrounded by white, sweet pulp. Packed side by side with my brothers and sisters. Nothing can separate us! Or can it? One day, in January, I believe, everything was going to change. It was a wonderful, sunny morning in the large, species-rich dry forest of the Piura Valley in northern Peru. The morning when my sweetness...