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peru is a country that s historically driven men mad, mad for gold, for coca, for its magical, ancient history. but now, there s something else drawing outsiders to its hidden mountain valleys. we love this stuff. we obsess about it, gorge on it, and fetishize it. i m talking about chocolate. once a common treat, it s now becoming as nuanced as fine wine, making the pursuit of the raw, good stuff all the more difficult. i m joining that hunt in remotest peru, but not before i ve re-immersed myself in the booming lima food scene. i took a walk through this beautiful world. felt the cool rain on my shoulder. found something good in this beautiful world. i m in peru with this guy, eric ripert. the guy was looking at us. he went into the tree. that s funny. chef of the world-famous restaurant, le bernardin, in new york, to look at where chocolate comes from, particularly our chocolate. so that s why we re in peru. but before we get all indiana jones, we re spend ....
Including, and most interesting to us, a strain of cacao previously thought to be almost extinct. a few years ago, the valley s cacao trees were genetically tested at a usda lab and proven to have identical dna to one of the rarest forms of cacao in the world, this stuff, the real deal, pure nacionale. don fortunato is our cacao connection, a farmer whose family has been working these mountains for over 40 years. chris: so they re just absolutely beautiful when they start out. absolutely beautiful. anthony: really kooky looking pods as they just come right off the trunk of the tree. chris: this anthony: they sorta look like somebody, you know, glued them to the side of a tree, you know. this is a once a year crop? chris: it goes continuously, but this is the peak season. eric: see the way it comes out? try that. like take one in your mouth. bite it, and you see those the nibs inside? those are the cocoa nibs. ....
you got to go down and then up, just right! we make it to the other side, reasonably dry. beer? the maranon canyon is home to a wide range of species including and most interesting to us a strain of the cacao previously thought to be almost extinct. a few years ago, the valley s cacao trees were dna tested at a u.s. lab and had dna of the rarest form of cacao in the world. this stuff. pure national. don fortunato is our cacao connection, a farmer whose family has been working these mountains over 40 years. they re just absolutely beautiful when they start out. ....
Beer? the maranon canyon is home to a wide range of species, including, and most interesting to us, a strain of cacao previously thought to be almost extinct. a few years ago, the valley s cacao trees were genetically tested at a usda lab and proven to have identical dna to one of the rarest forms of cacao in the world, this stuff, the real deal, pure nacionale. don fortunato is our cacao connection, a farmer whose family has been working these mountains for over 40 years. chris: so they re just absolutely beautiful when they start out. absolutely beautiful. anthony: really kooky lookin pods as they just come right off the trunk of the tree.$dx chris: this ....
We make it to the other side reasonably dry. beer? the maranon canyon is home to a wide range of species, including, and most interesting to us, a strain of cacao previously thought to be almost extinct. a few years ago, the valley s cacao trees were genetically tested at a usda lab and proven to have identical dna to one of the rarest forms of cacao in the world, this stuff, the real deal, pure nacionale. don fortunato is our cacao connection, a farmer whose family has been working these mountains for over 40 years. chris: so they re just absolutely beautiful when they start out. absolutely beautiful. anthony: really kooky looking pods as they just come right off the trunk of the tree. chris: this anthony: they sorta look like somebody, you know, glued them to the side of a tree, you know. this is a once a year crop? ....