An edition of Bitter Chocolate (2006)

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the dark side of the world's most seductive sweet

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An edition of Bitter Chocolate (2006)

Bitter chocolate

the dark side of the world's most seductive sweet

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This book is a shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industryblood diamond for chocolate. Bitter Chocolate traces the fascinating origins and evolution of chocolate from the banquet table of Montezuma's Aztec court in the early sixteenth century to the bustling factories of Hershey, Cadbury, and Mars today, revealing that slavery and injustice have always been key ingredients. The heart of the book takes place in West Africa inside the Ivory Coastthe world's leading producer of cocoa beanswhere, as Off discovers, profits from the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry fuel bloody civil war and widespread corruption. Faced with pressure from a crushing "cocoa cartel" demanding more beans for less money, poor farmers have turned to the cheapest labor pool possible: thousands of indentured children who pick the beans but have never themselves known the taste of chocolate. - Publisher.

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Publisher
New Press
Language
English
Pages
328

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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
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Bitter chocolate: the dark side of the world's most seductive sweet
2008, New Press
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
September 25, 2007, Vintage Canada
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Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
October 10, 2006, Random House Canada
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Table of Contents

Death by chocolate
Liquid gold
Cocoa on trial
The geopolitics of a hershey's kiss
No sweetness here
The disposables
Dirty chocolate
Chocolate soldiers
Class action cocoa
The man who knew too much
Stolen fruit
Bittersweet victory.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Toronto : Random House, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.1/7374
Library of Congress
HD9200.A2 O34 2008, HD9200.A2O34 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
328 p. ;
Number of pages
328

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16853770M
Internet Archive
bitterchocolated00offc
ISBN 10
1595583300
ISBN 13
9781595583307
LCCN
2007043501
OCLC/WorldCat
175290011
Library Thing
4921590
Goodreads
2217873

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