“Both Europe and North America are too cold to produce cacao, and yet, the Euro-American palate has assumed total control over what chocolate tastes like. Mexican chocolate company Cuna de Piedra is attempting to change that. Instead of going for the sweet and creamy qualities forced on chocolate by the Swiss and Spanish, Cuna de Piedra flavors their chocolate with hibiscus and mezcal. Their chocolates would make the eternally closed stone mouth of an Olmec head suddenly lick its lips...”

"Cuna de Piedra exists thanks to a group of people who joined  because they shared the same principles and goals. Is a homage to Mexico, to Mexican cacao and to all the people who are part of the process."

"Some of the more memorable international flavors included intense black jaggery and green mango Naga chili from Mumbai's La Folie and an exquisite whisky dark chocolate from The Chocolate Tree in Edinburgh. Mexico's Cuna de Piedra flavors chocolate bars with mezcal while Lithuania's Chocolate Naive infuses chocolate with foraged porcini mushrooms or kefir..."