Tradition, history, culture of the peoples of the forest and socio-environmental integrity became the ingredients of the recipe that César De Mendes created to create an incredible chocolate with Amazonian terroir made from the region's native cocoa. And this intense and striking flavor is even more special for the founder of the company, since chocolate refers to his origins and his affective memory. Learn about the history of this chocolatier who made cooking an art and cocoa a tool for social and environmental transformation. The son of a quilombola mother and a riverine father, with Jewish and Moroccan ancestry, César De Mendes was born in Macapá, capital of the state of Amapá. He moved with his family to Belém when he was still a child and his first memories with chocolate come from the capital of Pará. The chocolatier still has vivid memories of his grandmother and mother making cocoa juice and chocolate with the fruit they picked from the tree themselves. However, the passion for chocolate only really became his profession years later.