To taste the chocolate in a restaurant setting, head to the Kallari Cafe, in the new town section of Ecuador’s capital city, Quito. They offer a three-course cultural dinner, with traditional ...

Ecuador is home to some of the world's finest, single-origin dark chocolates. Indulge in everything chocolate here. Start by visiting a chocolate plantation, called cacao locally.

Carla Barboto, co-founder of award-winning Pacari Chocolate, says one bite of her bars can send your mind into the cacao groves of Ecuador. “In the bean you can taste the earth.

Beef. This is chocolate like I’ve never tasted it before. But there’s a good reason for that — it’s made using Ecuador’s rarest and oldest variety of cacao and aged in barrels and boxes.

Ecuador played a key role in introducing chocolate to the West. Unlike other Spanish colonies in South America, where gold and silver were abundant, Ecuador was exploited for its cocoa.

How Ecuador’s small-scale producers are working to make the country famous for its chocolate, not just for its cocoa. Plus, Le Cordon Bleu President and CEO André J Cointreau on his plans for the… ...

People have been enjoying chocolate far longer than previously known, according to research published on Monday detailing the domestication and use of cacao beginning 5,300 years ago at an ancient ...

Chocolates From Ecuador Until recently, Ecuadorean cacao growers had been cultivating low-grade cacao beans and selling them to foreign chocolate makers to process.

Ecuador is home to some of the world's finest, single-origin dark chocolates. Indulge in everything chocolate here. Start by visiting a chocolate plantation, called cacao locally.

Ecuador played a key role in introducing chocolate to the West. Unlike other Spanish colonies in South America, where gold and silver were abundant, Ecuador was exploited for its cocoa.