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Costa Rica -Conquest and Colony
In 1723 an eruption of the Irazú volcano destroyed the small town of Cartago, but ... were among the first products to be exported to Spain and other countries. Later on, cacao plantations became relevant, as well as cattle. Despite these exports, Costa Rica remained an extremely ...
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Funky Things with Poi
Lily said. We also sampled fudge Lily had made that morning from her own cacao beans. The Boerners will be rich and beloved if they can do to chocolate what they ...
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What to Eat in Oaxaca | Planeta
Seasonal specialties include the custard apple (annona). BEANS Black beans (frijoles) are preferred by Oaxaqueños who often add a leaf of the avocado tree ... Oaxacan delicacies, tejate's ingredient list is complex. The libation is made from corn, roasted cacao beans, mamey seed and rosita flowers (flor cacahuaxochitl). The ingredients are blended in a thick ...
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Plenty Bulletin Summer 2005
This makes a power packed protein food, quick and easy to prepare, leaving the ... cream cone and fried to hold it’s shape, then filled with the local refried beans, and whatever else might be added to a taco. We are having a special mold ...
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Exploratorium Magazine: Chocolate: page 2
"They seemed to hold these almonds [referring to the cacao beans ... beans were the local currency. In fact, in some parts of Central America, cacao beans were used as currency as recently as the last century. While it is likely that Columbus brought the cacao beans ...
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Exploratorium Magazine: Chocolate: page 4
Mesoamerican technique of grinding cacao beans on a "metate." When the Spanish first brought chocolate back ... enjoying chocolate. For many people, however, the expanded production of cacao in the New World (along with that of other agricultural ... patented an inexpensive method for pressing the fat from roasted cacao beans. The center of the bean, known as the "nib," ...
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Learning Site: Curriculum
Why chocolate, of course! In four unique units children will explore cacao, the food of the gods, native to Latin American rainforests. Students ... the forest, and who is using chocolate to do it. But cacao isn't the only intriguing species found beneath the great, ... -- Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world. The beans are typically grown in areas of tropical rainforest, which can be ...
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Cameroon
With the advent of colonization, export crops such as cacao, coffee, banana and rubber were introduced. These were grown on plantations using external inputs ... started in 1990 to encourage research and extension on food crops such as maize, beans, potatoes, soybean, and tubers. Increasing livestock production and the consumption of animal protein was ...
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On some Ivory Coast farms, child slaves harvest coffee beans as well as the cacao pods that yield cocoa beans. More than 7,000 tons of Ivory Coast coffee arrives in the U.S. each year. As with chocolate, coffee beans ...
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Indigenous Ecotourism: Río Blanco, Ecuador: Section 1
Instead, families eat more rice, which, along with eggs and beans, complement the traditional crop staples of manioc, plantain, potatoes, chili pepper, and chicha (a beer ... family consumption, may be planted alone or among the manioc and plantain. Cash crops include cacao and coffee and account for a large proportion of the recent expansion of agriculture. In ...
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