From Serious Eats, a cute and clever design for gumball packaging that should be good luck for the new year! I think I’ve seen something similar with little girls instead of the…
Month: December 2009
Chocolate Conflicts
Via my friend Nana (of generous international candy gifting fame), a BBC story about a US/UK chocolate divide and potential British resistance to a Hershey’s takeover of Cadbury. The NY Times’s take…
Bacon Sweets
From NPR, a piece on bacon desserts and lots of bacon dessert recipes, including one for chocolate bacon peanut bark. Relatedly, from The Kitchn, a recipe for candied bacon fudge. 2009 was…
Jelly Belly Soda
Jelly Belly already makes soda-flavored jelly beans. Soon, you can get Jelly Belly-branded jelly bean flavored sodas in sour cherry, lemon drop, crushed pineapple, blueberry, green apple, tangerine, juicy pear, strawberry, and…
Merry Christmas (Eve) and Happy Holidays
Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas, I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season! And may all the Santas that you run into not be wonky-eyed like the candy one below.
NY Times Chocolate Food News
From the December 1st NY Times Dining Section, two candy-related Food Stuff stories that could help with your last minute holiday shopping: Vegan chocolates at Cocoa V Antoine Amrani and his beautiful…
Chocolate-related gift guides (hint hint
Serious Eats has put together a gift guide for chocolate lovers. In other gift guide news, Vosges makes another appearance in Chow’s annual Winter Gift Guide. The folks at Chow.com are clearly…
Holiday Hiatus
Hello, dear readers! I get two precious weeks off from work to spend at home with my family, so I’m taking a two week break from reviews. Instead, you’ll get bonus news…
Hedonist Holiday Truffle Collection
Remember when I reviewed Hedonist truffles that were maybe no longer for sale? That’s because they replaced them with new truffles, their Holiday Collection, comprised of Champagne Pomegranate, Egg Nog, Fig, Ginger…
Fannie May Giveaway
As best as I can tell, Fannie May is a Chicago candy institution, and I made sure to try them out when I visited Chicago a couple of years ago (reviews here…
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
I, like many people (I suspect), eat chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream solely for the cookie dough bits. Whenever I buy it, the container ends up full of gouges where I’ve…
Chow and Foodzie Charity Drive
Chow and Foodzie are partnering to do good for Boston, New York, San Francisco, and LA charities. They’ve selected a bunch of local food items that, when purchased via Foodzie, means a…