The first half of the scientific identify for the fiendishly fickle cocoa tree means “meals of the gods”. By the point Theobrama cacao was christened by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish naturalist, in 1753, rich Europeans, just like the Mayans earlier than them, had been already worshipping its seeds. Three centuries on, demand for cocoa, the essential ingredient for chocolate, remains to be climbing heavenwards. Provide can’t maintain tempo.
