Exploring the impact of extreme weather and a deadly fungus on cocoa production, threatening the future of chocolate. From Ghana's cocoa farms to New York's chocolate factories, the episode paints a bleak picture of the challenges faced by farmers and chocolate makers.
Cocoa has never been so expensive. That’s bad news for players all along the chocolate supply chain: from farmers, to chocolatiers, to chocolate lovers.
In today’s episode, we travel from a farm in Ghana to Jacques Torres’ chocolate factory in Brooklyn, on a journey to understand the origins of a cocoa crisis – and what it means for the future of chocolate.
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