With the price of cocoa beans setting unprecedented records on the commodities market, it will certainly turn the gift of ...

After moving to Sicily for a simpler life, former investment banker Simone Sabaini helped to reinvent Modica’s sweet scene.

Artisan chocolatier Dominique Persoone sorts through cocoa beans in his workshop at The Chocolate Line in Bruges, Belgium, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) And making matters worse ...

Turns out that if love is reputed to be eternal, a low price for cocoa, the essential ingredient in chocolate, is not. No beans, no Valentine's chocolate “The price increase of cocoa is absolutely ...

Dominque Persoone, owner of the famed Chocolate Line brand, still has plenty of beans to ... that “60 % of cocoa comes from Ivory Coast and Ghana and these farmers have to make a better living.

No beans, no Valentine’s chocolate “The price increase of ... “We should have laws that make buying cocoa below the cost of the production something illegal. And it should not be up to ...