Apparently, Grandma knows how to spot Christmas decor trends with staying power. Ceramic Christmas trees first became popular in the 1970s, and now, several decades later, they're appearing in homes ...

Everybody loves chocolate. There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans ...

There is a joke that chocolate is a vegetable because it comes from a tree, and it does — the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao). The chocolate tree is an understory tree, thriving in the reduced light ...

Full-size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (You will need one cup for each tree, so buy accordingly.) Bag of mini Reese’s cups (2 per tree) Bag of Hershey’s Kisses (1 per tree) Start with a mini Reese’s cup ...

The countdown to the chocolate apocalypse has begun—or has it? Last November the world was awash in news reports warning that supplies of chocolate will fall behind demand in just five years, with a ...

The production of high quality chocolate, and the farmers who grow it, will benefit from the recent sequencing and assembly of the chocolate tree genome. The production of high quality chocolate, and ...

This search has led a team of researchers to an unlikely candidate—the humble carob pulp, a neglected food by-product. Their ...

Japan’s history with Bonsai trees goes back a thousand years, when they were first introduced there from China. The miniature trees, available in many forms, connect their owners to nature. But if you ...

One is the fruit of a tree that grows in Israel: carob. The other, chocolate, is derived from the cocoa tree, which bears the scientific name “the food of the gods,” or theobroma. While the carob has ...

The countdown to the chocolate apocalypse has begun—or has it? Last November the world was awash in news reports warning that supplies of chocolate will fall behind demand in just five years, with a ...