Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...

Perhaps you are fond of chocolate. This does not make you unique. It puts you squarely in the majority, along with 52 percent of Americans who list chocolate as their favorite flavor. But those are ...

The Nicholas Center Chocolate Lab marked its first year in operation on Dec. 10, celebrating what leaders and families described as a milestone in creating meaningful employment opportunities for ...

Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) There are technological and biological wonders inside the ...