Chocolate and China
After Slate’s Daniel Gross complained about not being able to find a chocolate bar in China, readers weighed in on why. Number 4 reminded me of how my parents always…
Fannie May Giveaway Winners!
Congratulations to Amy and Mindy, the randomly selected winners of my Fannie May Giveaway! They each get a $25 Fannie May gift certificate to enjoy as they please.
Clever Gumball Packaging
From Serious Eats, a cute and clever design for gumball packaging that should be good luck for the new year! I think I’ve seen something similar with little girls instead…
Chocolate Conflicts
Via my friend Nana (of generous international candy gifting fame), a BBC story about a US/UK chocolate divide and potential British resistance to a Hershey’s takeover of Cadbury. The NY…
Bacon Sweets
From NPR, a piece on bacon desserts and lots of bacon dessert recipes, including one for chocolate bacon peanut bark. Relatedly, from The Kitchn, a recipe for candied bacon fudge.…
Jelly Belly Soda
Jelly Belly already makes soda-flavored jelly beans. Soon, you can get Jelly Belly-branded jelly bean flavored sodas in sour cherry, lemon drop, crushed pineapple, blueberry, green apple, tangerine, juicy pear,…
Merry Christmas (Eve) and Happy Holidays!
Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas, I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season! And may all the Santas that you run into not be wonky-eyed like the candy one…
NY Times Chocolate Food News
From the December 1st NY Times Dining Section, two candy-related Food Stuff stories that could help with your last minute holiday shopping: Vegan chocolates at Cocoa V Antoine Amrani and…
Chocolate-related gift guides (hint hint)
Serious Eats has put together a gift guide for chocolate lovers. In other gift guide news, Vosges makes another appearance in Chow’s annual Winter Gift Guide. The folks at Chow.com…
Holiday Hiatus
Hello, dear readers! I get two precious weeks off from work to spend at home with my family, so I’m taking a two week break from reviews. Instead, you’ll get…
Hedonist Holiday Truffle Collection
Remember when I reviewed Hedonist truffles that were maybe no longer for sale? That’s because they replaced them with new truffles, their Holiday Collection, comprised of Champagne Pomegranate, Egg Nog,…
Fannie May Giveaway
As best as I can tell, Fannie May is a Chicago candy institution, and I made sure to try them out when I visited Chicago a couple of years ago…