Sugar Savvy

Yoplait Whips! touts itself as “a whipped yogurt so unbelievably fluffy, so incredibly light, it’s an extraordinary experience.” They recently came out with three new flavors that are dessert favorites. It seems like they are trying to offer a healthier replacement when those cravings hit.
So do they do the trick? Can you […]

On your next visit to the candy aisle you might notice alot more pink than usual. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Hershey’s is doing its part in the fight for the cure. Last October you may have noticed Hershey’s iconic York Peppermint Patties looked a little different, a little more pink […]

Smooth. Suave. That’s what a good chocolate mint candy should aim to be. Seductive. Rich. Almost debonair, but with more than a dash of cool excitement. A candy you’d like to take a bite out of after dinner and want to keep around for a little something special the […]

“When we modern Westerners think of chocolate, we think of it in its solid, sweetened form…. Yet during nine tenths of its long history, chocolate was drunk, not eaten.”
-Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate
Hot chocolate deserves a lot of attention. For thousands of years, it has been […]

“You’ll need to be on a soft food diet for 2 weeks”, the oral surgeon told me.
“What does that mean, exactly?”
“You know, like yogurt, polenta and risotto. No nuts, pretzels, chips, sticky caramels and candy.” (Yeah, he actually suggested “polenta and risotto” – such a classy periodontist I’ve got.)
Ummm…. What was that?
Well, […]

Perhaps it is San Francisco’s association with E.Guittard, Scharffen Berger and Ghirardelli, or that the super-sized, dipped chocolate truffle was pretty much popularized by the Bay area’s Joseph Schmidt and the now-defunct Chocolat operations, but whatever the reason, the number of quality chocolate candy producers in the Bay area is booming and last week’s San […]

For several years now we’ve been hearing about new deep-fried creations. First it was the Snickers, then the pickle and it seems to have spiraled slowly out of control because now beverages are being deep-friend. As if we didn’t need one more artery-clogging temptation.
Abel Gonzales, Jr has developed a way to deep-fry Coca-Cola […]

I know we’ve had our share of ice cream discussions at Sugar Savvy this summer, but I figured we were well overdue to actually make some. And even though summer will be fading into a distant memory before we can say Halloween, I’m still craving lots of frozen treats.

What better place to start the […]

Catalogs for Halloween tricks and treats have begun arriving at my household. My favorite for the most creative (and probably least gourmet) is the Oriental Trading Company’s. Its merchandise ranges from the sensible (small packs of pretzels) to the wonderfully grotesque (eyeball gum balls with cherry centers) to the downright disgusting (gummy bugs, brains, barf […]

The Normandie was a luxurious ocean liner built in the early 1930s. It was heavily influenced by Art Deco and modern styling and was considered the largest, fastest and most elaborately decorated passenger vessel of its time. If the See’s Candies’ chocolate confection of the same name is named after the ship, it […]