Sugar Savvy

While there are many reasons to, at the very least, question capitalism, the one thing it definitively brings is the ability to track trends in various industries. This is something to think about when reading this article about the popularity of novelty chocolate. From the article:
Marketing agency Kachalov and Co. said the Russian retail market […]

Events like Salon du Chocolat always remind me of how beloved the cocoa bean is, especially in Europe. I feel giddy with excitement when an exhibit or tasting of chocolate is offered. Somehow chocolate makes the world feel right.
So it’s no surprise that I visited not one, but two chocolate museums in my […]

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Christine packed up her bags and moved to France, where she attends cooking school at Le Cordon Bleu Paris. Food is always on her mind - she navigates Paris based on food landmarks, not Metro stations or historical monuments.
Christine adores traveling, street food, walking all […]

The Associated Press has written up a piece about one of my favorite artisanal candy bars: The Idaho Spud. It’s a brief piece, but it gives some numbers to the amount of candy sold annually. That it’s able to sell about 3 million candy bars in a year provides evidence that candy producers […]