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Article: Just chocolate: revolution in a wrapper.(FAIR TRADE)
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- New Internationalist
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- December 1, 2005
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'YUMMY,' giggles Christiana, a German medical student who confesses that she has eaten three or more in the past week. Her friend agrees. 'I love the stuff,' says Julia, smiling a naughty smile. 'It's the best chocolate I've ever tasted!'
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Walking along Grand Anse beach, a magnificent stretch of pristine Caribbean sand that frames St George's, Grenada's capital city, it seems that everyone is in agreement. But this scandalously good chocolate isn't from Switzerland, Belgium or France. This is 100-per-cent home-grown Grenadian, from bean to bar. Which, of course, makes it rather unique. Using fair-trade, hand-sorted, organic cocoa ...