ZOMG, Candy!

The new film Kings of Pastry looks amazing – it documents an intense pastry competition, complete with gorgeous chocolate and sugar sculptures.

Chocolate Fashion Show from Pennebaker Hegedus Films on Vimeo.

There’s also an associated chocolate fashion show that looks chic and tasty. I also love that they used real women as models. Because real women eat chocolate! Check it out above!

Economy Candy is one of my favorite candy stores. In the world. Of all time. And now David Lebovitz has been there!

He loved it too, and his pictures are far better than mine. Go check them out!

Via the New York Times Week in Review, a timeline of iconic junk food, featuring Tootsie Rolls and Dubble Bubble.

I found it more interesting that they included only things invented by men, even proclaiming a headline “Let Us Now Praise the Great Men of Junk Food”.

And what about all the stuff that they left out? Anything you think got left off?

From Serious Eats, here’s a handy-dandy quick glossary of some common chocolate terms. Throw some of these terms around for some added foodie cred!

Serious Eats has a nicely illustrated basic recipe for chocolate mousse. I think it could come in handy to clear out my chocolate cache from time to time.

Via Serious Eats, a neat video about the Mast Brothers, artisanal chocolate makers in Brooklyn.

The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo.

Thanks to everyone who entered my Milky Way Simply Caramel giveaway! The random number generator has selected commenters 1 and 22 to win a $75 gift certificate to SpaFinder.com and five Milky Way Simply Caramel bars to enjoy. Congratulations to Katie and Aaron!

From Chow.com, a how-to on how to taste dark chocolate. I think it should apply to tasting milk and semisweet as well.

You can also learn about chocolate tasting from the NCA or read my past post about how to throw a chocolate tasting party. Chocolate tasting parties are so fun!

Today marks the start of my second week out of town for an fMRI training course. I wrote the first week’s (aka last week’s) reviews before I left, thinking that I’d write this week’s posts from Michigan. Turns out that 4+ hours of lecture and ~4 hours of MATLAB programming per day is mentally draining.

So I’m taking the week off of writing reviews. Y’all will get a full week of news posts instead, starting with today!

Serious Eats recently published two peanut butter and chocolate-themed posts. The first is a taste test of how well various Chocolove chocolate bars paired with peanut butter. The second is a recipe for homemade peanut butter cups with a secret ingredient – ground up graham cracker crumbs.

Anyone else craving a Reese’s right now?

Via Serious Eats, a recipe for/ode to Pasteli, a sesame seed candy. It sounds like Sesame Snaps, a British treat that I really enjoyed.