We end 2020, crafting a new batch of speciality chocolate that has crossed the Atlantic. We call it “the harvest of hope.”

‘It is not an inquiry into the past, but a celebration of it’ - David Lowenthal

When are we going to enjoy it if not now? - Seneca asked at a table set out for him and his friends.

“Variety is the soul of pleasure.” - Aphra Behn

“Everything I do is a symbol. Everything has a meaning.” – Phillippe Starck

“…Strong in will to strive, to seek, to find not to yield. “ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

"… since ideas are not eternal like marble but immortal like a forest or a river." - Jorge Luis Borges.

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves" - Alexander Von Humboldt

"Conservation is a personal and collective ethic of caring for our environment," said Citlalli Morelos-Juarez, a Mexican biology doctor based in Ecuador and committed to preserving the life of the last spider monkeys that exist on our planet.

Don Beto Zamora talks about everything: from the latest cacao harvest, the April’s rains to the story of General Eloy Alfaro, Montgomery, or Trump himself. Yes, in his plot of “Arriba Nacional” cacao, we talk about cacao and geopolitics.

"The state is a good state when making fair laws that give equality to everyone, not special laws for a group of the population," said Rolando Montesdeoca, a cacao grower from Quiroga, Manabí, Ecuador.

Who harvests cacao during these times? Where does it come from? We talk to Leonardo Andrade our trusted man in the field where we source “Arriba Nacional cacao” for our chocolate collection.