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<p>Award-winning author and broadcaster Carol Off reveals the fascinating – and often horrifying – stories behind our desire for all things chocolate.</p> <p>Whether it’s part of a Hallowe’en haul, the contents of a heart-shaped box or just a candy bar stashed in a desk drawer, chocolate is synonymous with pleasures both simple and indulgent. But behind the sweet image is a long history of exploitation. In the eighteenth century the European aristocracy went wild for the Aztec delicacy. In later years, colonial territories were ravaged and slaves imported in droves as native populations died out under the strain of feeding the world’s appetite for chocolate.</p> <p>Carol Off traces the origins of the cocoa craze and follows chocolate’s evolution under such overseers as Hershey, Cadbury and Mars. In Côte d’Ivoire, the West African nation that produces nearly half of the world’s cocoa beans, she follows a dark and dangerous seam of greed. Against a backdrop of civil war and corruption, desperately poor farmers engage in appalling practices such as the indentured servitude of young boys – children who don’t even know what chocolate tastes like.</p> <p>Off shows that, with the complici

Who reads Bitter Chocolate : Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet?

Author

Carol Off

Publisher

[Toronto]: Random House Canada

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679313199

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Finance, Management

Rating

3.7 / 5 (220 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14