Rowan Jacobsen, winner of the James Beard Award, discovered the best chocolate he had ever eaten – a long-lost strain of wild cacao from the Bolivian rainforest. Here's the story of how he tracked it down, journeying by boat into the heart of Amazonia, enduring monstrous ticks, warlike ants, floods, drug runners, fickle outboards, piranha for breakfast, and a tribal helmsman more interested in beer than commerce.

The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank