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Flavors of dark fruits yield to mushrooms and cocoa on a sweet-ripe finish with soft tannins.

Negranza points out the House of Angostura’s recently-released cocoa bitters—made with cacao nibs sourced from Trinidad and Tobago, where the company is based—as a solid standby.

While most would-be home buyers are busy trimming trees and decking the halls, you can grab a cup of hot cocoa and experience all the benefits of house hunting during the holidays from your living room.

No one disputes how bad conditions are on those farms, and the Supreme Court briefs filed by the cocoa workers’ lawyers make for chilling reading—a tale about horrific abuse of children, for the benefit of global commerce.

From Fortune

On Tuesday, another years-in-the-making conflict will play out at the Supreme Court, when the nine justices finally consider whether Nestlé and Cargill are responsible for the use of child slavery on cocoa farms in West Africa.

From Fortune

He was a beautiful child, sweet natured, affectionate, with cocoa-colored skin and a thousand-watt smile.

After the blaze was extinguished, a retired cop came over with hot cocoa.

Talese, the New Journalism maestro, would send Lipsyte on cocoa runs.

Sweeten the cocoa with the sugar, adding more or less according to your taste.

It goes beautifully with dark chocolate, making for an enticingly spicy version of hot cocoa.

She opened the two boxes they had brought and set the vacuum bottle of hot cocoa on the bench.

For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.

We had each of us a fresh cocoa-nut with a hole bored in it, containing at least a pint of clear, sweet-tasting water.

Presently, this indulgence is extended to "dry coffee or cocoa," if preferred, and the men also are allowed to receive it.

Now she was going back, expecting to pick up a cargo of rubber and cocoa and what not, along the West Coast.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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