WILD CHOCOLATE (HB)

Rowan Jacobsen journeys deep into the rainforests of the Amazon and Central America with the chocolate makers, activists, and indigenous leaders who are bucking the system, pulling the last vestiges of ancient cacao back from the edge of extinction and forging an alternative system in the process-one that brings prosperity back to local economies, returns fertility to the land, and protects it from the rampages of cattle farming. Chock-full of unforgettable characters, hallucinatory landscapes, hair-raising encounters, and surprising history, this book is as rich, complex, bittersweet, and addictive as good chocolate itself.