São Tomé and Príncipe, once the biggest producer of chocolate in the world, is revitalising its chocolate trade. It took me less than half an hour at Claudio Corallo 's chocolate factory in the sultry capital of São Tomé and Príncipe to realise that everything I'd ever known about chocolate was wrong. The 72-year-old Italian led me through a series of his creations, delicately carving slivers of chocolate onto a board and waiting for me to taste each one. As I slipped them onto my tongue, he watched me, head slightly cocked to one side, eyes twinkling through his glasses, waiting for the reaction he knew was coming.

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