Chow’s 2008 Holiday Gift Guide
Rosa Chow’s 2008 Holiday Gift Guide is up. Vosges made the list once again with a $111 exotic truffles and champagne set. And if that’s out of your price range, never…
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Zip Sours – Orange Splash and Black Cherry
I love Altoid’s Sours, and I will eat them until my tongue goes numb. When I saw that Walgreen’s sold a knock-off version called Zip Sours for $1 a tin,…
Online Candy Deals
Thanks to William from Chocolate Obsession for rustling up some great online candy deals that y’all should check out. I ordered a box of Charles Chocolates with free shipping that…
Baby Ruth
The Baby Ruth is one of those unexceptional bars that are always around but rarely noticed. So unexceptional, in fact, that reviews of it are rare in the candy blogosphere.…
Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you’re enjoying your Thanksgivings! And if you find yourself with chocolate cravings even after you’ve stuffed yourself full of deliciousness and really shouldn’t take in any more calories,…
No school on Monday! Tuesday! Wednesday!
Dear readers, I’m lucky enough to go to a school that gives us a full week off for Thanksgiving. So I’m taking the week off to catch up on sleep…
REVIEW: (Limited Edition) Reese’s Crunchy Cups!
Reese’s is awesome at churning out limited edition stuff. The newest iteration is their Limited Edition Crunchy Peanut Butter Cups, which I picked up as an impulse buy at the…
Eat your chocolate – with your vegetables?
According to Chow’s Food Media, chocolate/vegetable flavor combinations are the next big thing in chocolate tasting adventures.
British Boiled Sweets – Part 2
Today we continue Monday’s review of British hard candies with a lemon sherbet drop and the rosy apple. Lemon Sherbet Drop My lemon sherbet drop wasn’t exactly a hard candy…
Is chocolate good for you?
As I’ve written before, I don’t buy into the “chocolate is good for you because it has flavonoids/antioxidants” hype. I eat chocolate because it tastes good and makes me happy,…
British Boiled Sweets – Part I
British boiled sweets have interested me since I first read a Harry Potter book. Clearly the Fizzing Whizbees and acid pops imagined by J.K. Rowling had some root in muggle…
Starbucks Chai Truffle [Review]
Starbucks came out with its own line of chocolates (made by Hershey’s) to be sold in grocery stores a year or so ago. They’d actually been selling chocolates in their…