Remember last year when someone discovered that a nation’s chocolate consumption correlated with Nobel Prize winning? Nature, the scientific journal, has followed up with some tongue-in-cheek interviews of Nobel Prize…
By my count, I’ve been in 12 different airports in the last 23 days. Phew! Now that I’m finally back in my half-unpacked apartment, I’m feeling optimistic about returning to…
Serious Eats just alerted me to a bean to bar chocolate maker, Videri Chocolates, that’s right in my backyard! Well, more like a thirty-minute drive away. But still! So close!…
Here’s a cute little slideshow from Serious Eats showing how marzipan is shaped by hand in a little shop in Berlin. From the headline, I was expecting marzipan fruits (I…
I love a good caramel, but I’ve always been too scared to try making them myself. David Lebovitz recently visited P?rlans Konfektyr,?an artisanal caramel shop in Stockholm, and watched them…
Via AdFreak, news of a clever new game/app from Stride Gum: it uses iOS devices’ front cameras to detect chewing motions of your mouth, and it uses that to control…
Moonstruck Chocolates makes pretty good chocolates (see past reviews here) that are, unfortunately, also pretty pricey. I’ve long coveted their adorable little animal-shaped truffles, but I always found them too…
When I think of big candy companies, I usually don’t think of Ferrara Pan. I think it’s because they don’t spend much on advertising in the same way that Hershey’s…
Remember how last week I said I was too busy to write reviews because I just moved to a new apartment? This week I’m in China! Just to visit –…
The Huffington Post is running a bracket-style voting contest to find the people’s least favorite flavor of Jelly Belly. Voting starts later today for the final round, which will be…
Do sprinkles count as candy? I say close enough! Solely because I want to share this ridiculously cute video of a ladybug knocking sprinkles around. Via Cute Overload.
Hey readers, If you noticed, I missed my usual Monday review. That’s because I spent all of this past weekend moving! And now I live in a messy new apartment…
Rosa