Walking barefoot across the cool tile floor, her silver face gems twinkling in the sunlight, sound bath practitioner and energy healer Maya Andreeva distributed paper cups filled with brown liquid to ...

A smoothie bowl with raw cacao is both nutritious and filling. Blend bananas, spinach, almond milk, and two tablespoons of ...

In ancient Maya civilization, cacao wasn’t just for the elites. Traces of the sacred plant show up in ceramics from all types of neighborhoods and dwellings in and around a former Maya city, ...

It’s easy to brush off a lot of New Age health practices as a bunch of monkey business—but the alternative health medicine industry will rake in more than $30 billion from the American public in a ...

Cacao is considered a heart-opener. It stimulates blood flow and is used in ceremonies to foster a willingness to learn, grow and connect. It seems fitting, then, that cacao would be the crop to ...

In 2014, during a short stay on the shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, walking along a dirt road, I came across a poster for an upcoming event stapled to a telephone pole. It read of a “cacao ceremony ...

After spending years sourcing cacao for the biggest chocolate brands around the world, Rob Weidner discovered a little secret of the cacao industry. Cacao farmers were eating the white fleshy center ...

Cacao beans are processed through fermentation, roasting and grinding to make chocolate flavoring. They only comprise 30% of the harvested weight of the Cacao crop Cacao is harvested as pods, only 30% ...

On Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, visit the Morton Arboretum in Lisle for a Chocolate Weekend celebrating all things chocolate. Sample an array of chocolate confections and unique items with a chocolate twist ...