Survey on perceived chocolate quality
Rosa If you’re looking to procrastinate for a few minutes, please take this survey about US chocolate quality for a friend of mine. He’s a business school student, and your responses…
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Serious Eats on how chocolate makers consider chocolate flavors
It’s fun to write about how fine chocolate can have hints of this and aromas of that. Serious Eats recently interviewed Valhrona Chocolate’s sourcing manager about how they consider and…
MunchPak Giveaway [Closed]
The Sour Skittles that I reviewed ?yesterday came from MunchPak, a new snack subscription service. For $19.95, you can get a box full of snacks delivered to your door every…
Sour Skittles [Review]
I recently received a free box of treats from MunchPak (more details on that tomorrow), including this bag of Sour Skittles. They’re not a new addition to the Skittles line-up,…
Heath Pieces
North Carolina has a great chain of drive-thru restaurants, Cook-Out, that feature an elaborate variety of milkshakes. I like Heath bar bits in my Cook-Out milkshakes, so I jumped at…
Chocolate Melting Instructions
Yesterday, I shared a link to chocolate expert Alice Medrich’s essential chocolate tips. The Kitchn also ran a post in which she shared the best way to melt chocolate for…
Essential Chocolate Tips from Alice Medrich
Alice Medrich is a chocolate expert and author of several chocolate books. The Kitchn has a post where Alice Medrich gives her essential chocolate tips. Did you know that its…
Dominican Republic Cacao Tour
Several years ago, I learned about how cacao pods are grown and eventually turned into chocolate from a Scharffen Berger factory tour. Serious Eats has a great slide show about…
Gingerbread M&M’s – For Christmas?! [Review]
I love gingerbread and gingerbread cookies. When The Impulsive Buy posted photos of Gingerbread M&M’s and Gingerbread Twix, I went hunting for them both at my local Walmart. Alas, I…
Serious Eats makes a candy ark
I had posted earlier about how Serious Eats had finally given Economy Candy the glowing write-up that it deserves. After they bought all of Economy Candy’s gummi animals, they turned…
Roberts Ferry Nuts Co – Butter Toffee Almonds
Roberts Ferry Nuts Company is a California company that just started selling their wares online. To get the word out, they sent me free samples of their Butter Toffee Almonds…
Serious Eats’ guide to Halloween candy-infused booze
If you’ve got leftover Halloween candy around (or if you loaded up at the post-Halloween candy sales), Serious Eats has an idea for what to do with it: flavor your…