Chocolate

Comments-
1. For better or worse, the old style planters with a firm hand and a single minded vision are gone for good. Nothing has yet replaced them.
2. A smart planter shapes a young tree to grow from three main boughs that spread from a short trunk. Branches that extend from the tree uprights find their happiest place between light and shade.
3. pruning is essential not only to shape a tree for easy picking, but also to coax it to maximum production. Done well, it reduces competing branches so that more nutrients reach the most promising limbs. Fertilizer and pesticides might help, but both are expensive.
4. To hear the world's finest chocolatiers tell it, the Valrhona factory at Tain, Hermitage in the heart of France is an earthly equivalent of heaven.
5. From the first moment I began to poke at the edges of chocolate, the name Valrhona seemed to take an outsized place in any conversation. Soon I learned to nod sagely and listen. If you talk jewelry, you should at least pretend you know about Tiffany's. In fact it is more than that. There are other over the top-end jewelers.

Questions-
1. Was the new technology for farmers really better?
2. If the fertilizers and pesticides would help, why didn't they use them and raise the price?
3. Valrhona is considered to be the best but what chocolates was it compared to?
4. Did the author feel Valrhona was the best of all the chocolates he sampled?

Vocabulary-
1. Sage- Someone venerated for the possession of wisdom, judgment, and experience.
2. Pesticides- A chemical used to kill pests, especially insects.
3. Chocolatiers- A person or firm that makes and sells chocolate candy.

Literary Terms-
1. Setting- The setting takes place in France.
2. Exposition- It starts off with the author explaining how to farm cacao plants.

Outline-
1. Planting and caretaking of the cacao plants are a lot of hard work. Every farm uses their own special technique in how they care for them. From the planting to cutting, watering as well as fertilizing and the use of pesticides, every farmer has his own individual style resulting in different types of cacao beans, which leads to different flavors of chocolate.