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What's better than holiday hot chocolate? If just thinking about it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, well – that’s by design. Chocolate's big history sweeps across the globe, and today we’re going on that journey: from the pre–Columbus Americas, to an early 20th century reporter’s hunch about what cocoa production really takes, to a 21st century medical student’s story about his childhood on a farm that produces those holiday treats.<br/><br/><strong>Guests:</strong><br><strong><br>Carla Martin,</strong> lecturer in African and African American Studies at Harvard University and President of the Board of the Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research<br/><br/><strong>Catherine Higgs</strong>, professor of history at the University of British Columbia in Canada<br/><br/><strong>Shadrack Frimpong</strong>, founder of <a href="https://cocoa360.org/"target="_blank" >Cocoa360</a><br/><br/><em>We’ve got a favor to ask: We know there are a lot of great NPR shows out there.. but we all know...