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Bitter Chocolate is a revealing look at the cocoa and chocolate industry, charting its origins from Montezuma’s banquet table to the modern factories of Hershey, Cadbury, and Mars. The author examines how slavery and injustice have been integral to chocolate’s production. The central narrative focuses on Ivory Coast, the world’s leading cocoa producer, where a multibillion‑dollar industry fuels civil war and widespread corruption. Facing pressure from a cocoa cartel demanding more beans for less money, impoverished farmers resort to using indentured children who pick the beans, often having never tasted chocolate themselves.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Carol Off
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