{"title":"Denise Castronovo’s favorite bars","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"arhuacos","title":"Arhuacos 80% Dark","description":"\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003eThe Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia is a place where all the Earth's biomes are found from the Caribbean Sea to the rainforest to desert to the glacial peaks. Here, global environmental change is closely monitored and kept in balance by its caretakers, the Arhuacos. They are descendants of the Tairona, an ancient civilization dating back to the 1st century AD. The Tairona grew cacao and prepared it as a drink. The Arhuacos today live a traditional village lifestyle led by their spirtual leaders, the Mamos. They make a livelihood from agriculture and hand-woven wool mochilas and live off the land. When the Arhuacos moved back to their spiritual land by the sea, they found their ancestral cacao still intact and have propagated it. We craft a chocolate from this ancient cacao that celebrates its purity so you can taste its rich heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castronovo Chocolate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45417533014165,"sku":"Arhuacos","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/5747\/4965\/files\/castronovo-archuacos-80-ercent-dark-chocolate.jpg?v=1754417957"},{"product_id":"chuao-venezuela-72","title":"Chuao Venezuela 72% Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003eNestled in the valley of the cloud forest lies the isolated village of Chuao in Venezuela. Only reachable by boat or on foot through the jungle, the village takes you away from the modern world to a setting of overwhelming nature and a 400-year tradition of cacao production, carried out by its native African American residents. Chuao's last-surviving aristocratic Spanish heir, Dona Catalina, gifted the plantation and her slaves to the Franciscan friars, who erected Chuao's iconic church, cacao drying patio, processing area, and a place for social and cultural gathering. In the 1960s, historical justice arose from the valley when the workers were given the farm. Today only descendants of the original slaves, mostly women, work the cacao plantation. The women sing while they work, \"long live the Chuao cacao, founded by Dona Catalina, it's rich and tasty and harvested by all of us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castronovo Chocolate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45417534423189,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/5747\/4965\/files\/castronovo-chuao-venezuela-72-percent-dark-chocolate.jpg?v=1754417872"},{"product_id":"jaguar-cacao-nibs-in-arhuacos-68-dark-chocolate","title":"Jaguar Cacao Nibs 68% Dark","description":"\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003eDenise discovered Theobroma bicolor when she visited Chazuta in the Amazon of Peru. It is in the same family as cacao and has many names: In Peru it is macambo. In Mexico it is pataxte, but informally called “jaguar cacao”. It is wild harvested from the Amazon with flavors of hazelnut and macadamia and a soft crunch. Denise purchased jaguar cacao directly from a widowed womens’ chocolate cooperative in Chazuta. With the help of USAID, their community reclaimed peace from the threat of armed conflict. We sprinkle the jaguar cacao nibs onto our Arhuacos 68% dark chocolate as a symbol of hope. Also, victims of conflict, the Arhuacos reclaimed their spiritual land after fifty years of isolation at higher altitudes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Castronovo Chocolate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45417535766677,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/5747\/4965\/files\/dark-chocolate-with-macambo.jpg?v=1754415358"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.castronovochocolate.mom\/collections\/denise-castronovo-s-favorite-bars.oembed","provider":"Castronovo Chocolate","version":"1.0","type":"link"}