Kristen Hard in Trinidad and Tobago - Atlanta Magazine

Kristen Hard in Trinidad and Tobago

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January 31, 2011

Kristen Hard searches for the perfect cacao bean; from “The Bean Stalker,” by Bill Addison, in our February 2011 issue

Hard meets with Anton Doldron, coordinator for the Cocoa & Coffee Industry Board of Trinidad and Tobago

Inside the offices of the Cocoa & Coffee Industry Board on Trinidad

The Cocoa Research Unit at the University of the West Indies on Trinidad studies cacao diseases such as the fungus known as witches’ broom

Hard looks over cacao pods at a small fermentary on Tobago

Hard at a cacao harvest on Tobago

Hard and cacao farmer Cloyd Blackman slurp the pulp from cacao pods

A roadside break on Tobago

Hard harvesting cacao in Tobago’s northern mountains

A worker at the University of West Indies’ cacao gene bank sharpens his tools

Hard with Trinidad cacao farmer Paul Manickchand

Cacao beans drying atop a roof on Paul Manickchand’s farm

Boarding a chartered flight from Trinidad to Tobago

Truffles at Cacao Atlanta’s Inman Park store