There’s something about Howard-Yana Shapiro that inspires trust — at least when it comes to cacao. The author of “The History of Chocolate” (National Geographic Society, $20) is a Santa Claus ...

Feb. 17—Did you know that M&M candies were developed by an estranged member of the Mars family, who created Mars candy bars? Or that M&Ms were once distributed primarily to military personnel? Those ...

New archaeological evidence suggests humans were cultivating and consuming cacao—the crop from which chocolate is produced—as long as 5,300 years ago, which is 1,500 years earlier than previously ...

Not all chocolate is created equal. There's the mass produced stuff that gets handed out at Halloween, and nicer bars you can buy in a grocery store. Then there's specialty chocolate that you can only ...