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EDGEWATER, Colo. — From colorful bonbons to crispy bites of bark, a small family-owned Colorado business is making chocolate into a local treat. Patrick Tcheunou and his wife, Mara, came up with the idea when they learned about an impending worldwide cocoa shortage brought on by climate change and the chocolate industry’s problems with slave and child labor.Patrick grew up in the Central African country of Cameroon, where cacao flourished on his grandparents’ land.
Through these ethical and sustainable practices, they hope to prove “you can actually make great chocolate if you do the right thing from the beginning to the end,” Patrick said.Once they bring the cacao to Colorado, Patrick turns it into treats with a name they’ve also brought from Cameroon: Bibamba.“Bibamba is 'patch,'” he said. Usually, it means a patch covering a hole in fabric. But “in slang, people will say bibamba to say snack,” he said. A snack to patch your empty stomach.
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