How did you sleep?

First nights are always the heart.

That's good.

That's a truthful answer.

It's an early February morning on the banks of the J'erwa River in Brazil, not far from the Peruvian border.

I'm with Louisa Abram and her dad, Andre, and we're here on a simple

mission, really? Just try and save the most fragrant chocolate on earth from total

extinction. We just arrived last night after a full day of travel by

planes and small boat and after a rough night in a basic hut we're moving a

little slow as we take stock of the situation. The story of this mission goes back a few years.

Louisa had just dialed in her technique for producing great chocolate from wild

cacao beans when a nonprofit called SOS Amazonia that works to protect the Amazon and its people came to her with a plea.

They just found a cow growing along the banks of the J'

J'hoor River in a pristine area where the people had almost no source of income,

would she consider working with them?

No one had ever tried making chocolate with this cacao,

so of course she couldn't resist.

She flew north clear across Brazil and checked out the trees.

The pods were tiny with deep ridges.

The seeds inside were really small.

And when I saw it, I was just like, mmm, I think we found something different here because it was just so unique.

They collected samples and rushed them off to the USDA for analysis and scientists couldn't get back to them fast enough.

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