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Smith Island's hope for revival layered in baking traditionIn one corner of the bare-bones bakery, Louise Clayton, 62, hushed a visitor as she carefully counted out scoops of cocoa for the fudge icing she was making. Missy Tyler, 49, measured out batter and poured it into a cake tin. She did it nine... In this article: Smith Island, Constellation Energy, Cocoa, and Tin |
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The Charleston Gazette | 1 day ago
Smell the Coffee: Dreaming of a white elephant this Christmas
...recorded himself singing a dozen Christmas songs and put it on a CD. He even made a cover for his CD featuring a picture of him sipping cocoa while holding his dog. Both he and the dog were wearing matching holiday sweaters. I come from a...
In this article: Dog, Charleston, West Virginia, Stipulation, and Photoshop
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Independent.co.uk - Commentators | 1 day ago
Katy Guest: The shipping forecast: cocoa for the ears
Never mind mariners, poets and popstars need it In a small treat for Surrey vicars, fans of Victoria Wood and those who get excited when they find a pattern on their kitchen roll, middle England was last week offered an exciting glimpse...
In this article: Blur, Alice Arnold, MCA, Clare Balding, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Reactionary, and Insomniacs
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Commodity prices fall as Dubai fears boost dollar
...wheat futures fell 1.75 cents to $5.6975 a bushel, while March corn rose $5.50 to $4.135 a bushel. January soybeans fell 1.5 cents to $10.53 a bushel. Prices for cotton, coffee, cocoa and pork bellies fell. Orange juice and sugar rose.
In this article: Commodity, Dubai, New York Mercantile Exchange, Soybean, Orange juice, Natural gas, Platinum, Copper, and Sugar
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | 2 days ago
Controversial brewery launches 'world's strongest' beer
...with vanilla bean white chocolate it really brings out the complexity of the beer and complements the powerful, smoky and cocoa flavours." A warning on the label advises drinkers to take it in small servings: "and with an air of...
In this article: Portman Group, Tokyo, Scotland, and Britain
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FT.com - Financial Markets News | 3 days ago
Gold slides as dollar rallies
...on thin trading because of the US Thanksgiving weekend. Corn, wheat and soyabean lost almost 2 per cent in morning trading. Sugar, cocoa and coffee were also down. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. You may share using our article...
In this article: Dubai, London, Zinc, Tin, Copper, Base metals, and Sugar
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Science Blog - | 5 days ago
Study shows flavanol antioxidant content of US chocolate and cocoa-containing products
...amount of flavanols, whether large or small, in products like dark chocolate, milk chocolate and cocoa powder are closely tied to the level of brown cocoa particles in the products." said David Stuart Ph. D., Director of Natural Products at...
In this article: The Hershey Company, Antioxidant, Hershey Center, Cocoa solids, Catechin, Chocolate syrup, Milton Hershey School, and Beneficiary
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Slashfood | November 20, 2009
Hot Mexican Cocoa with Stone-Ground Chocolate
...which definitely have an effect on the mind or body chemistry. These include compounds like theobromine, the primary alkaloid in cocoa and chocolate also stimulates the heart and has many therapeutic uses. People associate the "chocolate...
In this article: Chocolate, Tryptophane, Theobromine, Alkaloid, Essential amino acid, and Sugar
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WSJ.com: Markets | November 18, 2009
Cocoa Market in Disarray
...as oil, where contracts are traded almost around the clock. But the move had the opposite effect on commodities like cocoa: Many cocoa floor traders and brokers, who made up about 40% of the market, have quit. Dapco Brokerage, which used to...
In this article: Hershey Co., New York Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, Mars Inc., and New York
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Reuters | November 18, 2009
Ghana sees cocoa sector hitting output goal
Ghanaian government support to its key cocoa sector should ensure it reaches a target of one million tonnes of annual production by 2012, Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor said in a 2010 budget speech on Wednesday. Duffuor detailed a series...
In this article: Ghana
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UPDATE 3-Callebaut trims growth goals on lower consumption
[ID:nL9380032] HIGH COCOA PRICES The group, which also provides the food manufacturing industry with cocoa and chocolate products, coatings and cocoa powders, said its operating profit would be hit by the unfavourable combined cocoa ratio,...
In this article: Barry Callebaut, Chocolate, Outsourcing, Recession, Nestle, Lindt & Spruengli, and Kraft Foods
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Cocoa is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree, from which chocolate is made. (The word "cocoa" is simply a derivative of "cacao".) "Cocoa" can often also refer to the drink commonly known as hot chocolate; to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa solids; or to a mixture of cocoa powder and cocoa butter.
A cacao pod has a rough leathery rind about 3 cm thick (this varies with the origin and variety of pod). It is filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp (called 'baba de cacao' in South America) enclosing 30 to 50 large almond-like seeds (beans) that are fairly soft and pinkish or purplish in color. == History ==
The cacao tree is native to the Americas. It may have originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America where today, examples of wild cacao still can be found. However, it may have had a larger range in the past, evidence for which may be obscured because of its cultivation in these areas long before, as well as after, the Spanish arrived. It may have been introduced into Central America by the ancient Maya, and cultivated in Mexico by the Olmecs, then by the Toltecs and later by the Aztecs. It was a common currency throughout Mesoamerica and the Caribbean before the Spanish conquest.
Cacao trees will grow in a limited geographical zone, of approximately 20 degrees to the north and south of the Equator. Nearly 70% of the world crop is grown in West Africa.
Chocolate was introduced to Europe by the Spaniards and became a popular beverage by the mid 1600s. They also introduced the cacao tree into the West Indies and the Philippines.
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