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Welcome to a hot and humid tropical forest and welcome to the food program the place for hungry

minds and most definitely all chocolate obsessives the essential ingredient in all

chocolate are the fermented and roasted seeds of a plant lonese named Theobroma cacao, meaning food of the gods.

Back in 2017, inside South American Forest, I was lucky enough to meet this plant.

It feels like we're not walking into a farm, we're walking into a forest.

It's full of life, of different insects, butterflies, animals, very, very harmonious.

I'm deep inside a cacao plantation, walking with two chocolate makers.

We're on the east coast of Venezuela, South America. Across the Caribbean sea lies

Trinidad. Further north is Cuba. But because of what I'm about to find, this feels like an unworldly, strange, magical place.

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