Nothing Like Chocolate: Story of The Grenada Chocolate Company
Chocolate has been considered sacred across much of Central/South America since at least 1400 BC. During the modern era, though, it has fallen on spiritually hard times. The documentary film Nothing Like Chocolate, directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, tells the story of one man who made a delicious difference. A man who helped to restore chocolate’s divine status from a sweet little outpost in northern Grenada. His name was Mott Green.
Recent decades have seen the cacao plant uprooted from its home region. It’s been heavily cultivated, often by those employing child slave labor in West Africa. The combined effect has stripped cacao of its historical significance. For the most part, it’s now bought and sold as a simple commodity.
Affecting substantive change in the 100 billion dollar global chocolate industry would be a tall enough order for anyone. As the film shows, though, Mott’s revolutionary work in founding The Grenada Chocolate Company wasn’t simply for love of chocolate. It was really about his affection for the Spice Island, Grenada, and the welfare of Grenadian farmers.
Just watching the trailer is enough to leave you with a serious chocolate craving. Having watched the entire film, I can assure you that it will not only have you jonesing for a chocolate fix. Instead, you’ll insist on chocolate that’s responsibly grown and produced from “Tree to Bar.”
Sadly, Mott passed away tragically in Grenada a year following the completion of Nothing Like Chocolate. His spirit and commitment to espousing chocolate’s true ethereal essence lives on in the film. To watch the full documentary, click here.
Mott’s legacy also continues through the The Grenada Chocolate Company. For more information on their operations and ways in which you can pay them a visit in Grenada, please visit their website here.
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