Sugar Savvy

Write articles about sugary treats? No arm twisting needed here, I’m happy to make the sacrifice. In addition to writing for the various Well Fed sites, I combined my cookbook obsession and my love for the written word to form my own site, Sweetnicks. My site’s name comes from my 4-year-old son, Nicholas, who […]

Sometimes something quite old can be new. And in this case, that something very old is Walnettos. I love Walnettos, and even though they’ve been around for almost 90 years and millions of people have enjoyed them since they were children, I only just met my first Walnetto last November. It was, ironically, the day […]

So the other day, I was at one of my local “big box” stores and found myself in their candy aisle. I quickly browsed the selections to see if I could find any of the sought-after Limited Edition candies we’ve been waxing rhapsodic about lately.
Of course, my search was unsuccessful, but I […]

Sometimes the simplest things are the best. Take nice, plump, almost juicy raisins and lots and lots of good milk chocolate coating. What do you get? See’s Candies’ Milk Raisins and a real winner.
Tasting Report
Description: These raisins are drenched with so much milk chocolate you can hardly see a wrinkle. […]

This is a quick, super-simple to prepare frosty treat that will curb that chocolate craving in no time and help you beat the heat. What more could you ask for right?
I got the idea for these Choco-covered Banana Pops a long time ago while watching 30 Minute Meals, we’re talking the early […]

Maybe it’s the wide variety of flavors, or its association with childhood memories, or maybe it’s the candy’s relatively healthy profile, but whatever the reason Jelly Belly jelly beans seem to be popular with both children and adults. So much so, in fact, that enough of the candy’s fans showed up in Fairfield, CA, […]

In the book Toast by Nigel Slater, there is a scene in which he describes, in great detail, the eating of a Walnut Whip, his favorite candy bar as a young boy growing up in England. I read this book several months ago, but the image of this particular candy and the […]

I’m an itinerant traveler, a lover of literature, and a native New Yorker who’s currently based in Australia. I’ve also been a movie reviewer, a reproductive health researcher, and an independent bookstore owner.
I grew into an everyday cook a couple of years ago when I lived in the historic Central American town of Antigua, […]