Don’t be surprised if your tap tastes faintly like coffee chocolate this week. Over the weekend, a freighter docked off Pier 7 in Brooklyn tipped over, depositing 10 containers–at least two of which were filled with raw cocoa beans–in the East River. The 800,000 pounds of beans, bound for a factory in Chicago, were being stored at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal and most likely had come from Ivory Coast. The incident is under investigation. In the meantime, beware of over-caffeinated worms and snails.
There’s Cocoa in the River [NY Times] GMAP