simple. easy. awesome. ask how to get $300 back when you sign up for xfinity mobile, and purchase a new samsung phone. visit your local xfinity store today. anthony: the city of chiclayo lies about 400 miles northwest of lima. it s peru s fourth largest city, with over a half a million people living there. it s our next stop, the staging area for our trip to the mountains to find our cacao. chocolate. i mean, we know we like the stuff. but how is it made? where does it come from? columbus was the first european to encounter cacao beans on a
labor, the inner sleeve, this much. design, box, packaging, this much. various sundry equipment and miscellaneous, another small chunk. chris, me, and eric each get a slice out of every bar. that leaves this much, which the retailer takes. chef bleeding-heart hippie here has already convinced me to give whatever meager profits we make off our first bar to a local charity. so, what s unusual about these pods, these beans? chris: the extremely high quality of flavor. anthony: thought not around for a while. chris: this was what almost all chocolate was made of, over 120 years ago. anthony: right. chris: and now, it s, uh, making a giant comeback. i mean, as a chocolatier, this is a once in a lifetime find. anthony: now, about 40% of the beans from these trees have got white cacao beans mixed in. the rest are purplish in color. but we ve heard of an ultra rare group of trees elsewhere, further up the mountains, that produce pods with 100% all pure white beans.
the raw cacao costs one chunk. labor, the inner sleeve, this much. design, box, packaging, this much. various sundry equipment and miscellaneous, another small chunk. chris, me, and eric each get a slice out of every bar. that leaves this much, which the retailer takes. chef bleeding-heart hippie here has already convinced me to give whatever meager profits we make off our first bar to a local charity. so, what s unusual about these pods, these beans? chris: the extremely high quality of flavor. anthony: thought not around for a while. chris: this was what almost all chocolate was made of, over 120 years ago. anthony: right. chris: and now, it s, uh, making a giant comeback. i mean, as a chocolatier, this is a once in a lifetime find. anthony: now, about 40% of the beans from these trees have got white cacao beans mixed in. the rest are purplish in color. but we ve heard of an ultra rare
where does it come from? columbus was the first european to encounter cacao beans on a mayan trading canoe off the coast of honduras. he s said to have grabbed both crew and cargo, and brought them back to spain. a few decades later, a spanish conquistador, hernando cortes, came across aztecs using the sacred beans in a drink. it was considered the drink of the gods. like most expensive, delicious things from abroad, the largely inbred and frequently syphilitic european royalty did their best to keep what was fast becoming a craze for hot chocolate to themselves. but it soon found its way to america. and, in 1765, the first chocolate factory opened in new england. chiclayo s main market is a massive, one-stop shop for all things chocolate, as well as just about everything else under the sun.
anthony: now, about 40% of the beans from these trees have got white cacao beans mixed in. the rest are purplish in color. but we ve heard of an ultra rare group of trees elsewhere, further up the mountains, that produce pods with 100% all pure white beans. and that s something me and eric are very interested in down the road. but for now, don fortunato s daughter, johanna, has prepared us a traditional peruvian mountain meal. chris: wow. anthony: oh, whoa. johanna: juanes. eric: juanes? johanna: juanes. anthony: juanes are rice dumplings with boiled egg, chicken, and achote inside. wow. eric: this is amazing. anthony: mm. eric: buonissimo. [ johanna speaking spanish ] anthony: mm. mm-hmm. anthony: and not surprisingly, some cuy, or guinea pig, of which there seems