There is a convention in craft chocolate that goes largely unspoken but is observed almost universally. Dark bars are serious. Milk chocolate is not.

There is a farm in the Soconusco region of Chiapas called La Rioja.

There are places in Peru that exist at the edge of what maps consider worth recording. The upper Urubamba basin is one of them — a region where the Andes lose their confidence and descend, reluctantly, into something older and less legible.