Talk:Cocoa
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To User:JRR Trollkien: Interesting remark about slavery. But I wonder: are you talking about anything recent or about colonialization times? More details would definitly be important. I take it you're working on that in the not yet existing Cocoa Protocol article? TIA. Sanders muc 09:48, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
There have been reports that forced, often child, labour has frequently been brought in to work on modern plantations. However, this remark is unbalanced; cocoa was originally introduced to the area by the Quaker families Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree largely to provide an alternative cash crop to the slave trade! What is happening now is far less like real slavery, which cocoa actually reduced. PML.
To PML: Interesting as well. An article about the history of cocoa farming hence might be valuable. Would you give it a try? Sanders muc 11:23, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
When I get around to it, I'm going to combine this page with chocolate, and leave this page only for cocoa as the solids component -- unless someone else beats me to it. jaknouse 05:24, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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Dutch Process not available in U.S.???
//Adding an alkali produces Dutch process cocoa powder, which is what is generally available most everywhere in the world except the United States and has less acidity.//
I don't know if this is really true, since most chocolate products I see in the U.S. have "cocoa processed with alkali" in their ingredients lists. Is this not the same thing?
- Products may contain alkali-processed powder but when you are buying the powder itself, it is not Dutch-process. (Although I did recently see one labeled as Hershey's European Dutch process cocoa powder.) Rmhermen 01:02, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)
I live in the US, and I just looked at my Hershey's Cocoa Powder. On the back there was one ingredient: COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI
Cocoa vs. Cacao
I'm trying to find out the relationship between the word "cacao" and "cocoa." According to the dictionary and several web sites including The International Cocoa Organization web site at http://www.icco.org/questions/qindex12.htm, the tree can also be called "cocoa."
Is "cocoa" just the English rendition of the Latin/Spanish word "cacao?" If anyone has any information on the etymology of this word and how it morphed from "cacao" to "cocoa", please post it here.
Origin of "cocoa"
My understanding is that the word "cocoa" comes from a typographical error made by Samuel Johnson. I think in English the general usage is that "cacao" refers to the plant or the seeds, and "cocoa" to the product once it has been processed.
What is a nib?
Is nib a general term for a type of seed or piece of seed?
True Hot Chocolate?
Eh? This seems mildly POV, I think some explanation by what "true" means in this context would be useful. Does it mean that the word "hot chocolate" was first used to describe a white chocolate (cocoa butter) drink?
