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Wanted: John & Kira's Handcrafted, Locavore-Friendly Chocolates

Philadelphia-based John & Kira's crafts lustworthy treats using ingredients from local farms and gardens.READ»

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Warning: DNA Discoveries by Mars, Hershey Could Lead to Advanced Chocoholism

Two new DNA sequencing studies could lead to the bioengineering of some delicious chocolate.READ»

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The 30-Day Brand Revolution

Brands should spend less time pitching and more time engaging, less time fidgeting and more time embracing new ways to expand and outmaneuver expectation. Here, for the first time, brand identity expert David Brier shares a story of one brand that did.READ»

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Best of Artisan Chocolate

What tastes better with chocolate? According to these confectioners, just about everything.READ»

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Tagged Cocoa Beans Now Traceable From Ghana

A new tagging system in Ghana helps chocoholics get their fix without fear of supporting human trafficking.READ»

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Hershey Gets a Not-So-Sweet Kiss for Fair Trade Month

Hershey, despite having a market share in the U.S. of over 40%, is doing the least in the area of fair trade.READ»

Here Comes SuperCacao: Mars, Inc. Sequences the Cacao Genome

Chocolate lovers, rejoice. A research team led by scientists at Mars Inc., the U.S. Department of Agriculture--Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and IBM this week sequenced the genome of the cacao tree. Best of all, the ...READ»

Nestle Eases Up on Rainforest Destruction

We recently gave kudos to Nestle U.K. for a plan to source the chocolate in Kit Kat bars from fair-trade suppliers. That wasn't enough for Greenpeace U.K., which attacked the candy maker this week for sourcing palm oil from Sinar ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Charts You Can Eat (and Taste Sweet)

A French design firm creates chocolate bars that double as graphs about chocolate.READ»

Chicken Feather Biofuel Something to Cluck About

Chicken feather meal--a mix of processed chicken feathers, blood and innards--is one of the nastiest byproducts of the poultry processing industry. The 11 billion pounds of feather meal that pile up in the United States each year are ...READ»

LG Chocolate's Screen Secret Revealed: Cinema Ratio Widescreen

LG has been teasing an update for it's Chocolate smartphones with glossy teaser shots. But that wasn't enough for one Web site, which uncovered its secret: The screen.According to Tweakers.net it's not going to be run of the mill at ...READ»

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Race Car Made From Vegetables--Fuelled by Chocolate--Goes for a Test Spin

The Internet has been buzzing about the WorldFirst ecoF3 vehicle, a race car made from vegetables that runs on chocolate-derived biofuels, for the past month. Now the race car's developers at the Warwick Innovative Manufacturing ...READ»

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Mars Promises Candy from Sustainable Cocoa

Only a month after Cadbury announced its plan to buy fair-trade cocoa from Ghana, rival candy giant Mars has promised to source all chocolate products from sustainable suppliers by 2020. The move, which means the company will only buy ...READ»

Cadbury Creme Eggs Get A Conscience

By next Easter, your Creme Eggs may be a little less of a guilty pleasure. Cadbury just completed a deal to source fair-trade cocoa from Ghana by the end of summer 2009. The cocoa will come from a cooperative with the delightful ...READ»