Award-winning Malaysian bean-to-bar producers elevate local chocolate


Yesterday marked World Cocoa and Chocolate Day, which values and celebrates the work of smallholder farmers from cocoa-producing countries around the world.

Interestingly, chocolate has a history that dates back over 3,000 years when the people of the earliest communities in central America ground cocoa beans into a thick liquid to be consumed as a drink.

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