Barcelona (Spain), Dec. 11 — Santiago Peralta went from being an Ecuadorean peasant, raising cows and selling guinea pigs as a child, to being ranked the Best Chocolatier in the World by the Fine Chocolate Industries Association (FCIA). “Thank God I’ve never been to any chocolate school,” says the founder of the family company Pacari, to EFE in Barcelona, who boasts growing the first organic cocoa, and in 2016 managed to take, for the fifth consecutive year, the title of World’s Best Chocolatier, in the International Chocolate Awards presented in London. Peralta, who confesses he had no idea about chocolate when...
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