I’m so terrible about impulse buys at Trader Joe’s. Everything looks awesome! Like these Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Salted Caramel Truffles. What a mouthful of a title! Which came with a mouthful of a blurb on the box: “our three most popular flavors combined to create a sensational, sweet, salty bite. Rich, melt-in-your-mouth dark chocolate…
Month: November 2012
Candy Blog guide to NYC
Cybele from Candy Blog recently went to NYC and wrote up all her candy-related visits. Beware: reading may give you cravings for macarons, salted caramels, or salted caramel macarons.
Sour Jacks
I’d never heard of Sour Jacks before I saw them at Sweets and Snacks earlier this year. It seems like they fight Sour Patch Kids for sour anthropomorphic candy gummi territory. I picked up free sample bags of their original Sour Jacks and their watermelon gummis at the expo. Buy From Amazon! Sour Jacks came…
Sandy and NYC food artisans
Serious Eats wrote a piece about the status of some NYC food artisan’s negatively impacted by Hurricane Sandy. It’s great that there are so many small businesses in NYC, and I hope that they’re able to hold out until they can finish rebuilding.
Hedonist Cinnamon Chipotle Drinking Chocolate + Coupon Code
Last year, Hedonist Artisan Chocolates sent me free samples of their bittersweet drinking chocolate, but it never really got cold enough in North Carolina for me to bust it out. Recently, I got a free sample of their cinnamon?chipotle drinking chocolate, which I made to get me through Thanksgiving prep. Hedonist described their Cinnamon Chipotle?drinking…
Happy Thanksgiving
To my U.S. readers, hope you have a great Thanksgiving! May it be full of delicious food and time with loved ones. Photo is of the Thanksgiving Mix from Public Displays of Confection.
Caribbean Chocolate Vacation
If you’re struggling to pick your next vacation adventure (and you have a good chunk of disposable income), check out the NY Times Travel section’s write up of chocolate-themed tours of Caribbean. Beautiful and delicious!
Paris Chocolate Show
Yesterday, I pointed y’all to Serious Eats’s write up of the NYC Chocolate Show. Today, I point you to Chocablog’s take on the Paris Chocolate Show. Drooling yet?
Thanksgiving break + NYC Chocolate Show
I’m taking the week off from writing new reviews this week since it’s Thanksgiving. Instead, I’ll leave y’all with news posts, through Wednesday, starting with Serious Eats’ recap of the NYC chocolate show. There are so many chocolates that I’ve never tried!
Buddy Fruits Fruit Bites
Buddy Fruits?was one of my saviors at Sweets and Snacks. After entire days of gorging on candy samples, their fruit?pouches?of?blended fruit?(basically apple+other fruits sauce in portable format) were a health preserver in a sea of sugar and salt. In addition to free samples of their blended fruit pouches, which I ate while I at the…