(1) The first commercial quantities of coffee to enter Europe came through Venice in 1640, sixty years after cacao was commercialized in Spain.

(2) 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.

(3) 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.

(4) Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, the seeds of Theobroma cacao , an u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510understoryu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb tree that evolved beneath the canopies of Latin American rainforests.

(5) The mole chicken was pretty authentic, perfectly cooked white meat in a rich brown sauce of cacao mingled with spices.

(6) For centuries, the Aztecs of central and southern Mexico cultivated cocoa beans - the seeds of Theobroma cacao .

(7) This winning concoction came from the variety called Rim - 100, selected from Mexican plants that still look much like cacao 's wild ancestors.

(8) Historically, cacao itself has been a vagabond crop.

(9) 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.

(10) Mature fruits of Theobroma cacao were harvested from a Malaysian plantation.

(11) To those fortunate people, the cocoa drink made from cacao was, as reflected in the genus name, indeed the u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510food of the gods.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(12) 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.

(13) The consumption of cacao in New Spain remained an important market throughout the colonial period, supplied largely by the Guayas and Caracas plantations.

(14) Made from the beans of the tropical plant Theobroma cacao , cocoa was a favorite drink of ancient Maya and Aztec people in Mesoamerica.

(15) Esmereladas is their chocolate made from Ecuadorian cacao , that had a surprising tropical banana-like aroma and flavor.

(16) Both of these desserts were vegan and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510rawu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, made with nuts, cacao and fruit.

(17) Coffee, sugar, cacao , and coconuts from the coast are widely distributed.

(18) For dessert, the tiramisu looks like it was scooped from a fluffy snow-peaked mountain and sprinkled with fresh raspberries and cacao .

(19) 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.

(20) Additions which could be made to posole, to improve its basic pleasant but sharp taste, include honey, cacao , ground sapota seeds, green maize.