“There were piles of white seeds where honey leaked from”. Jorge Amado

When we came back to the cocoa plantation, there were piles of the yellow fruit waiting to be opened and we were all set to open them up – one by one… Actually, we discovered that Domingos had already done that. We were lacking [...]

“In the South of Bahia, cocoa is the only name that sounds right. The farms are beautiful when loaded with the yellow fruits. The feudal barons look at the horizons at the start of every year and forecast the weather and the harvest”.
Jorge Amado (1912-2001)

The Brazilian acclaimed Modernist novel ‘Cacao’ was Jorge Amado’s [...]