Gail Ambrosius Interview
Rosa Serious Eats has a great interview with Wisconsin chocolatier Gail Ambrosius. I reviewed her chocolates last May and absolutely adored them, so it was nice to hear more about the…
March 2011
Valentine Dots
I am the queen of buying things on sale, hence this post on Valentine candy over a month after Valentine’s Day. I bought the Dots in a post-holiday sale, of…
Homemade Raspberry Liqueur Chocolates
Valentine’s Day was over a month ago, but it’s still not too late to try out this Serious Eats recipe for raspberry liqueur chocolates! The recipe looks a little complicated…
Tom and Sally’s Organic Skinny Bars
I bought two Tom and Sally’s 100% Organic Skinny Bars at a little chocolate shop near the Berkshires in Massachusetts. I tried to look up more about them, but Google…
Chinese Bai Nuo
I bought these Bai Nuo chocolate bars while I was in China last fall. Bai Nuo Foods is located in Shanghai… and that’s about all that I know about them.…
American Chocolate Week Giveaway
Did you know that this week (March 20-26) is American Chocolate Week? To help us celebrate, the National Confectioners Association (NCA) is sponsoring a giveaway on ZOMG, Candy!* They’ve just…
Vosges Bapchi’s Caramel Toffee Bar
I bought this Vosges Bapchi’s Caramel Toffee Bar along with the Organic Enchanted Mushroom that I reviewed on Monday. It’s made of 45% deep milk chocolate, sweet butter toffee, walnuts,…
More for my Paris bucket list
Oh David Lebovitz, I love your blog so much, but I hate how it makes me want to frivolously empty my savings account, jet to Paris, and eat everything in…
Vosges Organic Enchanted Mushroom
It’s not every day that you run into chocolate with mushrooms, so I just had to pick up this?Vosges Organic Enchanted Mushroom.?Even if it did cost a bit more than…
Kinder Surprise Eggs: Is it Worth What’s Inside? [Review]
After writing about the illegality of the Kinder Surprise eggs, I realized that I should review them. If customs asks, all Kinder Surprise consumption for the sake of this review…
The Evolution of Candy
My undergrad advisor loves Darwin Day and goes all out every year to celebrate it. I wish I’d seen this news story (brought to me by my friend Steve) about…
Deemah Juicy
Here’s a second Egyptian candy courtesy of my friend Katie. The wrapper labeled them as, “filled hard candy with cherry juice.” The candies were lozenge-shaped: smooth, glossy, oval spheres. Though…