How Is Chocolate Made?

Some questions are so big they’re existential, meaning that they get right to the heart of human existence. These are also sometimes called philosophical questions, so for this episode we called up a professor of philosophy, Scott Hershovitz, who teaches at the University of Mich ...  Show more

Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Many of you have learned about the meteorite that scientists say hit the earth 66 million years ago and killed off many dinosaur species. But some dinosaurs survived, and the birds you see flying around today are their direct descendants! In this ...  Show more

The bittersweet world of chocolate is complex - cocoa beans are produced by some of the poorest people on the planet and turned into chocolate for some of the richest, and the sweet stuff is haunted by child labour, slavery, trafficking and deforestation. But could the rise of ar ...  Show more

Making (and tasting) chocolate is an art. In this episode, a cocoa expert guides us through the world of chocolate and how you can appreciate it to its fullest.To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and us ...  Show more

People have been consuming chocolate for at least a couple thousand years, but it's only been in the last hundred that humanity has arrived at its crowning achievement: the smooth, creamy milk chocolate bar. Find out about the history of chocolate, how it's made and how it aff ...

Comme tout le monde ou presque, vous avez déjà entendu qu’il ne fallait pas donner de chocolat à nos amis les chiens… Parce que oui, une bonne tablette de chocolat pourrait leur être fatale. Mais pourquoi ne peuvent-ils pas se délecter d’un bon carré ? Hébergé par Audion. Visitez ...  Show more