Exploring the challenges faced by chocolate makers in Brooklyn amid a cocoa shortage in Ghana, leading to price hikes and the need for recipe adjustments. Insights on historical adaptations and the potential for new product creations to combat the cocoa crisis.
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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