Chocolate Gadgets
Rosa I love kitchen gadgets and can happily spends ages wandering around Williams-Sonoma or Sur La Table while lusting after a specialized tool to pit cherries or whatever. Just ask my…
2009
Necco Sky Bar: Head In The Clouds? [Review]
I tried. I really, really tried to give the Necco Sky Bar a fair shake of a review. It’s a retro bar and is deliberately marketed as such, with its…
M&Ms Contest x2: Free M&Ms!
M&Ms just sent me a huge package of their special all green M&Ms for Valentine’s Day. I guess the logic comes from Ms. Green being the only female M&M, so…
Sesame Snaps in Chocolate and in Yoghurt
Sesame Snaps are another British treat that I wish was easily available in the U.S. In England, they’re pretty cheap, at 35 pence a pack. Each pack contains two Snaps,…
Surf Sweets: The Best Organic Candies? [Part II]
Today brings the anxiously awaited conclusion to my review of Surf Sweets’ product line that I began on Wednesday. Surf Sweets?Gummy Swirls: First up (or is it fourth up?), their…
Non-Candy Related Help?
Dear Readers, I know y’all come from all over the country/world. Maybe y’all can help me out with a quandry? I had been using Cheez-It Stix in my senior thesis…
Surf Sweets: The Best Organic Candies? [Part I]
One of the biggest perks of my candy blogging hobby is getting free samples from candy retailers. When Surf Sweets offered to send me samples of their all-natural and organic…
No chocolate before bed?
From the NY Times Health section a couple weeks ago, a Really? piece questioning the claim that chocolate can disrupt your sleep. Their conclusion? Chocolate could contain enough caffeine to…
Happy New Year!
Chinese New Year (well, Lunar New Year, to be perfectly pc. But I’m Chinese, so I’m calling it like I see it), that is! May your next year, the Year…
Charles Chocolates – Part II
Here’s the review of the rest of the box of Charles Chocolates that was introduced on Wednesday. We did the top row then, so today we’re going over the bottom…
Chocolate as a slippery slope?
A new study reports that allowing one indulgence, such as a chocolate truffle, can lower one’s willpower and lead to a desire to eat more. I think it’s an attitudinal…
Charles Chocolates – Part I
I’d wanted to try Charles Chocolates for ages, and I was sad to have missed the chance to go on a tour of their factory when I was in the…