How To Use Cacao In A Sentence
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Late in the day, just after we had feasted on the fruits of a wild cacao, we came upon a three-toed sloth climbing slowly through the upper branches of a cecropia tree.
One River
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It introduces, maintains, characterizes, and evaluates germplasm collections of banana, plantain, sapodilla, mamey sapote, cacao, Garcinia, Annona, and bamboo.
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But chocolate is manufactured from the cocoa plant Theobroma cacao, which literally translates as ‘food of the gods’.
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This type of mole gets everyone excited because it's made with chocolate, but cacao is only one ingredient in the mix of four kinds of chillies and musky spices that create its distinct and complex flavour.
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Unlike cacao and coffee, yerba mate was not a domestic plant when first encountered by Europeans.
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Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had magical, or even divine, properties18), suitable for use in the most sacred19) rituals of birth, marriage and death.
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A habitual arrogância com que Angola encara críticas, esperando que se adaptem as leis internacionais à realidade angolana e não o contrário, apenas tem dificultado mais o processo de certificação da TAAG que a autorizará a voar para a Europa de novo.
Global Voices in English » Angola: National flag carrier removed from EU blacklist
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Some coffee and cacao are grown for export.
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The leaves of mangos and cacaos do the reverse, turning scarlet when they first sprout.
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So effective is cacao as a pick-me-up that it is being embraced in the party crowd as a healthy alternative to synthetic dance drugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Buyers don't like more than half a per cent. of rubbish; I mean stones, dried twig-like pieces of pulp, dust, etc., left in the cacao, neither do they like to see "cobs," that is, two or more beans stuck together, nor ----.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
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The tropical climates where T. cacao grows best are also perfect incubators for fungal diseases like black pod, witches' broom, and frosty pod rot.
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Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. offers a spirited rebuttal to this naively "whiggish" perspective.
EconLog
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The homemade tiramisu was just as should be, fluffy and not too sweet, with a dusting of cacao on the layers of ladyfingers and mascarpone.
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Edible plants rich in flavanols include cacao, tea, grapes and grapefruit.
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Fair trade is a mechanism through which fair-trade companies try to ensure a guaranteed price to the producers of some specific primary commodities - such as cacao and coffee - regardless of price on the world market.
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Not too woo-woo is cacao treatment, a kind of chocolate-high therapy they may offer.
Times, Sunday Times
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They say that yields of corn, cacao and fruit have dropped dramatically since the oil started gushing.
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The word cocoa comes via the Spanish cacao, which in turn came via the Maya and Aztec from a probable Olmec word kakawa coined 3,000 years ago.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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They note that green tea and cacao contain a class of polyphenols called catechins, which consist mainly of epigallocatechin gallate, epicatechin gallate and gallocatechin gallate.
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That's because fungal diseases like witches broom and frosty pod rot are devastating cacao crops in Central and South America.
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All fatty beverages -- _bouillon_, unskimmed milk, chocolate, or cacao -- and all alcoholics, are hurtful; breakfast tea is undoubtedly the best beverage, but, after a little, is advantageously replaced by light white wine diluted with water.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
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Historically, cacao itself has been a vagabond crop.
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The Kuna Indians of Panama consume up to five cups of cocoa a day and include cacao in many of their traditional recipes.
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The consumption of cacao in New Spain remained an important market throughout the colonial period, supplied largely by the Guayas and Caracas plantations.
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I wasn't hugely satisfied: I can think of other significant plants (the spices, coffee and cacao, flax and sisal, the coconut/copra) whose trade has affected and continues to affect the world economy.
Linkspam for 12-10-2009
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The Spaniards, in general, dislike a mixture of vanilla with the cacao, as irritating the nervous system; the fruit, therefore, of that orchideous plant is entirely neglected in the province of Caracas, though abundant crops of it might be gathered on the moist and feverish coast between
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Learn how cacao is grown and processed, and roll your own chocolate truffle.
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Se o velho papa santificava a torto e a direito, o novo papa emitiu directivas que constragem fortemente os processos de santificação.
Leituras
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El algodon no se coje alli solian acudir alli muçhos nauios de burney al Rescate del bruscay que son vnos çiertos caracolillos que heçha la mar ques moneda en sian como El cacao en la nueva españa es de la juridiçion de areualo nunca a entrado en ella ninguna justa tiene esta ysla doçe leguas de box.
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Of all these the Complexion of _Cacao_ is composed, since there arise two qualities, which are cold, and dry; and in the substance, that rules them, hath it _restringent_ and _obstructive_, of the nature of the Element of the _Earth_.
Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry oth
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In 1996 ornithologists announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical ovenbird, the pink-legged graveteiro, within the rustic cacao farms of the state of Bahia, Brazil.
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The latter is a trip: 75% cacao, studded with nibs, sludgy-looking and packing a wallop.
Best of 2009: New food
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I made brandy alexanders 1 part brandy, 1 part creme de cacao, 1 part Haagen-Daz vanilla ice cream, 1 maraschino cherry, splash of maraschino cherry juice.
Weekend Update: Alotta Fagina Edition
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The area under coconut production increased from 7,816 to 40,000 acres, while that of cacao increased from 1,231 to 11,474 acres.
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I put together a blend which I aptly named "Rider's Cereal Blend" which consisted of Artisanal Cereal blend base (multigrain oat bran, rye, spelt, barley, amarath and wheat germ) cacao nibs, granola, goji berries and pumpkin seeds.
12 posts from November 2008
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To be fruitful, a cacao tree must get individual attention - something the family farm and the small farmer are best suited to provide.
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The bestseller was a vegan cacao and orange pot, which sold ten times the number predicted.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is in considerable contrast to the large, technologized ‘zeroshade’ cacao plantations, which apply generous amounts of highly toxic herbicides, such as paraquat, and potent insecticides such as endosulfan.
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This strange practice was not limited to eating cacao, but also included eating "barro" or "tierra," that is, clay or earth, usually in the form of "earthenware, as pots or pieces of lime walls.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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For centuries, the Aztecs of central and southern Mexico cultivated cocoa beans - the seeds of Theobroma cacao.
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Where are silver, platinum, tin, wool, wheat, palm oil, furs and cacao got from?
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After dinner a small piece of cheesecake made with real cacao is just perfect.
Food That Tastes Good and is Good For You, Too
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The Harvard-MBA-toting, former Yahoo! product designer relied on these free-flowing gab sessions--and other forms of inexpensive fact-finding like trade shows, customer surveys and industry reports--to come up with the idea for a new candy called nibs: pebble-sized cacao beans smothered in premium chocolate.
Do Customers Want What You're Selling?
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Comunicação interna criada pela agência BBDO Nova Iorque, EUA, para o dia Traga os seus filhos para o trabalho onde todas as pessoas da empresa chegaram ao trabalho e encontraram os seus monitores "vandalizados" por lápis de cera.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Although high in cacao, it retains an almost milk chocolate richness that imparts a creamy mouthfeel.
Fiori Chocolatiers
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Besides discussing foraging, the book is a lavishly illustrated tour of cutting-edge wild cuisines, from Mateo's roasted veal chop with morel and cacao sauce to a cuitlacoche and squash blossom quesadilla, using the corn smut that Mexican cuisine honors and Midwestern farmers abhor.
Food foragers find fun and cash amid the wild fungi
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- Os funcionários do governo boliviano disseram que iriam subir o rio e na volta não queriam mais me encontrar na minha colocação.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Bolivia expels Brazilian citizens
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Violinistas tocavam músicas da série aos automobilistas parados nos semáforos enquanto que dois mafiosos italianos (ao estilo de Sopranos) colavam nos carros "tiros de balas" com a comunicação da nova temporada.
Archive 2008-10-01
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The Dutch bought contraband cacao from Caracas producers, and shipped it to Amsterdam, which soon became the main supplier of cacao to Europe, including Spain itself.
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West African nations such as Ivory Coast and Ghana are now the world's leading exporters of cacao, with at least 40 percent of the world's supply produced in Ivory Coast alone.
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XXIII. _koka_ for _Cacao_; _batt_ for _Bett_ (bed); _emmu_ for
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
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The first commercial quantities of coffee to enter Europe came through Venice in 1640, sixty years after cacao was commercialized in Spain.
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He owns a cacao plantation in this swath of untamed cloud forest in northern Venezuela, where ocelots dart under towering saman trees and howler monkeys shriek at visitors.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 29, 2009
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Chilly nights, I like nibbling small pieces of chocolate with a cup of hot, spicy mulled wine, enjoying the aroma of cacao, spices, and wine blending together.
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The cocoa mass itself is naturally made up of about half cocoa butter and half dry cocoa solids, but since the ratio varies among beans, two brands labeled 70 percent cacao may not have the same percentage of cocoa butter.
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It was fairly simple for commercial growers to transplant cacao and coffee to new plantations, but yerba mate proved to be a finicky crop.
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It also has factories processing palm oil, rubber products and cacao.
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Mature fruits of Theobroma cacao were harvested from a Malaysian plantation.
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Lindane, a highly poisonous organochlorine, is sprayed on crops of cacao plants growing in Ghana and other west African countries to control mirid bugs, which cause the plants to wilt.
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By the mid-sixteenth century cacao had acquired status as an elite beverage in New Spain, and a material culture and vocabulary had been developed or acquired to accompany it.
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The chocoholics among us won't be surprised to learn that people were sipping decoctions of cacao a millennium earlier than archaeologists had previously thought.
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Cacao naturally contains more phenolic supernutrients compared with most other foods.
The Sun
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De um lado temos Nicholas Negroponte, dinamizador do programa 100$ laptop e defensor do software open source e do uso criativo da tecnologia, do outro lado temos Craig Barrett, presidente da Aliança Global das Nações Unidas para as Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação e ex-chefe da Intel, defensor de pcs e portáteis convencionais a baixo custo e do uso sistemático do Office nas salas de aula.
Leituras
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Dunga, com a convocação que fez, mostrou que não está preocupado em se casar com o Brasil, mas em ser leal ao seus comandados.
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Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, the seeds of Theobroma cacao, an ‘understory’ tree that evolved beneath the canopies of Latin American rainforests.
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Zollernia paraensis, a leguminous tree, Theobroma grandiflorum, a fruit similar to cacao called cupuaçu, and Cordia goeldiana, a common timber tree, are all well-known in eastern Pará.
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests
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Sir R. Schomburgk, in his expedition into the interior of British Guiana, found the country abounding in cacao, "which the Indians were most anxious to secure, as the pulpy arillus surrounding the seed has an agreeable vinous taste.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Cacao beans, like coffee, need to be roasted to bring out their flavor.
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Both of these desserts were vegan and ‘raw’, made with nuts, cacao and fruit.
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Some raw foodists I met at a raw food boutique in San Diego including a young man who was eating only raw cacao nibs and feeling “totally epic” snickered that they had recently busted their fruitarian colleague eating avocados.
The Fruit Hunters
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To those fortunate people, the cocoa drink made from cacao was, as reflected in the genus name, indeed the ‘food of the gods.’
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We fully expect our experiments in Miami, Florida, to hasten discovery of cacao plants resistant to monilia pod rot, black pod, witches broom, and other costly fungal diseases.
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Chocolate comes from the cacao tree.
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Brazil used to be one of the top producers of cacao, until a fungus called witches'-broom struck the crop in the late 1980s and devastated the country's industry.
With DNA of chocolate nearly decoded by scientists, could sweeter treats await?
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Over half the weight of the shelled and degermed cacao bean is made up of fat, or "cacao butter," a product, Gage noted, "I have seen drawn out ... by the Creole women for to oint their faces.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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The Kuna Indians of Panama consume up to five cups of cocoa a day and include cacao in many of their traditional recipes.
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a brief survey of the history of cocoa and chocolate, I shall begin with the growing of the cacao bean, and follow the _cacao_ in its career until it becomes the finished product ready for consumption.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
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In the sixteenth century El Salvador produced cacao, from which chocolate is made; in the eighteenth century it grew indigo, which yields a blue dye used in clothing.
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The cultivation of cacao, which had been pursued on Jamaica by the Spaniards, was persisted in by some English planters, and it was the profits made from cacao that made it possible for some of them to become involved with sugar production.
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The most popular were the "pussyfoot" (white of an egg, grenadine, lemon and orange juice) and the "Alexandra" (crème de cacao, grenadine, and cream).
VQR
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The cultural aspects of the introduction of tea to Europe contrasted with those of cacao and coffee.
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The bestseller was a vegan cacao and orange pot, which sold ten times the number predicted.
Times, Sunday Times
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For dessert, the tiramisu looks like it was scooped from a fluffy snow-peaked mountain and sprinkled with fresh raspberries and cacao.
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But chocolate is manufactured from the cocoa plant Theobroma cacao, which literally translates as ‘food of the gods’.
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They enjoyed abundant mineral wealth, stunning yields of maize and cacao, as well as strong and enduring ties to the Mesoamerican nobilities of Oaxaca and central Mexico.
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From which doctrine I gather, that the Author of _Marchena_, was in an errour, who, writing of _Chocolate_, saith that it causeth Opilations, because _Cacao_ is astringent; as if that astriction were not corrected, by the intimate mixing of one part with another, by meanes of the grinding, as is said before.
Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry oth
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The three main varieties of cacao beans used in the production of chocolate are criollo, forastero and trinitario.
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Additions which could be made to posole, to improve its basic pleasant but sharp taste, include honey, cacao, ground sapota seeds, green maize.
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Brazil used to be one of the top producers of cacao, until a fungus called witches'-broom struck the crop in the late 1980s and devastated the country's industry.
With DNA of chocolate nearly decoded by scientists, could sweeter treats await?
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El algodon no se coje alli solian acudir alli muçhos nauios de burney al Rescate del bruscay que son vnos çiertos caracolillos que heçha la mar ques moneda en sian como El cacao en la nueva españa es de la juridiçion de areualo nunca a entrado en ella ninguna justa tiene esta ysla doçe leguas de box.
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They employed the cacao, maize, Indian corn (_Zea Mays_), and raw cane-juice, and coloured it with arnatto, which they called _achiotti_ or _rocou_, but which was known in Europe at that time by the name of _Terra
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The cacao nibs and pistachios had a tendency to bob to the surface, but I am hoping that they will still infuse the jam with flavor and add textural variety.
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Most of their beans are criollo hybrids, which is considered the best cacao available today.
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Most of the better ones list the percentage of cacao on the label ... and are likely to taste better than those bars where a small amount of chocolate is used basically as a colourant.
How to make perfect hot chocolate
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Spain did not re-export its cacao imports, in contrast to England, where 3/4 of cacao imports in the late eighteenth century were re-exported to other countries, much of them to Spain.
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Wild cacao grew in many parts of tropical America, including the coast of what is now Ecuador.
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Grown from scions of five parental families grafted onto a common rootstock, these new cacao trees yield more pods and beans than their parents.
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The mole chicken was pretty authentic, perfectly cooked white meat in a rich brown sauce of cacao mingled with spices.
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The ‘fountain’ of Cacao is no baroque extravaganza but a simple vertical spout at the center of the pool of melted chocolate.
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While some members of the Berytidae family are beneficial and prey on crop pests such as aphids, mites, cotton budworm, and tomato hornworm, others are serious pests of tomato, cotton, and cacao.
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(Only 5-10% of the world's cacao is good quality Criollo, or higher grade Trinitario, mostly single estate specialists.)
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So effective is cacao as a pick-me-up that it is being embraced in the party crowd as a healthy alternative to synthetic dance drugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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If placed dry in the _tinaja_ jars (Tagálog, _Tapayan_), containing cacao-beans, the insects will not attack the beans.
The Philippine Islands
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Then in 1878, a Swiss manufacturer named Rudolphe Lindt invented the conche, a machine which ground cacao beans, sugar, and milk powder slowly for hours and even days, and developed a much finer consistency than had been possible before.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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By 1500 B. C. , they were refining chocolate from the cacao bean and using it in religious ceremonies.
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Vinson said chocolate was given the name cacao, meaning "food of the gods.
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In the Aztec empire it was so valuable that cacao beans had a higher value than gold.
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Put the cacao nibs into a small dish and roll balls into nibs or powdered cacao may be subbed.
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The Feast for the Greatly Revered Ones: Cacao mixed with ground maize, agave wine, and octli, mixed with herbs and spices native to central Mexico.
Thor's Day
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Both sugar and cacao (plant whose seeds are used to make chocolate) were produced in Bahia, a state in northeastern Brazil.
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The Caracas cacao trade to Europe in the early eighteenth century was an Atlantic enterprise, involving a complex web of legal and illegal intercolonial relationships.
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This cardboard-like quality makes Chocolate Greedy quite a bit like Compotoir Sud Pacifique's Amour de Cacao, which I have never been able to wear exactly because of its powdery, somewhat artificial, overly sweet and strangely tough doughiness.
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In a small bowl, combine the cacao nibs and brown sugar.
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Chuaco is the Montrachet of chocolate and still attracts the great chocolatiers of France and Italy, who fight over infinitesimal amounts of the finest criollo cacao in the world.
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If you are after the most fashionable way to get through a hard day, raw cacao should be at the top of your shopping list.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bestseller was a vegan cacao and orange pot, which sold ten times the number predicted.
Times, Sunday Times
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The creation of the first modern chocolate bar is credited to Joseph Fry, who in 1847 discovered that he could make a moldable chocolate paste by adding melted cacao butter back into Dutch cocoa.
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The bestseller was a vegan cacao and orange pot, which sold ten times the number predicted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frequently hand-ground, cacao is combined with almonds, cinnamon and other ingredients to make what is generally acknowledged as the best chocolate in Mexico.
The Cuisine of Oaxaca, Land of the Seven Moles
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Made from the beans of the tropical plant Theobroma cacao, cocoa was a favorite drink of ancient Maya and Aztec people in Mesoamerica.
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Older, ‘gran cru’ trees yield finer criollo and trinitario cacao beans, which are more flavorful than the lesser beans.
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Coffee, sugar, cacao, and coconuts from the coast are widely distributed.
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More and more artisan chocolatiers are making single-origin varietal chocolates that express the unique flavors of different cacao beans.
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Esmereladas is their chocolate made from Ecuadorian cacao, that had a surprising tropical banana-like aroma and flavor.
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This winning concoction came from the variety called Rim - 100, selected from Mexican plants that still look much like cacao's wild ancestors.
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The three major world caffeine drinks, coffee, tea and cacao, have become standards in western society, and yet consumption of other products, such as yerba mate and guarana, have remained regionally important.
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As we have seen, cacao was popularized in Iberia in the late 1580s, perhaps 70 years before tea or coffee became popular items of consumption in Europe.