Essential Candies List – 56-110
Rosa Today, y’all get the latter half of my take on Cybele’s list of the 110 Essential Candies for Candivores. In case you missed it, the first half of the list…
January 2010
More Chocolate + Design
From a long-over contest at Re-nest, the Chocolates Birdfeeder from Vanishing Creatures Chocolates. The box contains 15 pieces of organic dark and white chocolates that look like endangered animals. When…
Brach’s Jelly Nougats [Review]
I love bulk bins because they let you buy exactly how much you want. I especially love them for candy because they let me buy just enough to taste for…
Chocolate + Design
Via Candy Yum Yum, the French design firm 5.5 and the Spanish chocolatier ChocolatFactory have teamed up to give the folks at Mary and Matt a run for their creative…
Wei of Chocolate – Vegan Dark Chocolates
Apparently my distaste for Rochester winters has been, well, apparent. I recently got an email from Lisa Reinhardt, a University of Rochester grad, telling me that she sympathized about Rochester…
Essential Candies List – 1-55
To kick off 2010, Cybele from Candy Blog posted an exhausted list of the 110 Essential Candies for Candivores. She suggested that we repost it with what we’ve had checked…
Economy Candy in the NY Times
Economy Candy (of which I am a huge proponent) gets a shout out in a NY Times’s 36 hours in NYC article. I hope it brings them tons of extra…
Hawaiian Punch Jelly Beans [Review]
I was just in Target this past weekend and saw that they already had an endcap of Easter candy on display. It’s still January! Ridiculous as that was, it at…
L.A. Burdick now in Manhattan
I have been to Boston/Cambridge, MA at least a half dozen times, always with the intention of visiting L.A. Burdick’s brick and mortar cafe. I loved the box of their…
TCHO Chocolates – Re-review
After I noted TCHO’s off packaging, they sent me fresh samples with their new packaging. In the months since my roommate bought the pack that I first tasted, TCHO had…
Kettle Confections Almond Nougats
Up until now, my food-related experience with Etsy has been with the myriad mini food jewelry pieces you can find there; I had no idea you could buy actual food…
What Should I Eat? Candy Flowchart
Eating on the Road’s “What Should I Eat?” food flowcharts have gotten good press in the blogosphere. Now that they’ve come up with a Candy Edition, I’m hopping on the…