Sugar Savvy

Black licorice is one of those things you either love or hate. Growing up, I used to fight my brothers and sisters for their black jellybeans at Easter. I didn’t like any other flavor, but the black ones were picked out and savored. So when I saw the Licorice Scotties at Trader Joe’s, I knew […]

Hey y’all!  From all of us here at Sugar Savvy, we hope you have a wonderful weekend.  We’re taking the weekend off to go in search of great candies and lots sugary goodness to report back to you.  We’ll return bright and early Monday with more great coverage of candy bars, bubble gums and all sugary things […]

To some Hanukkah is a celebration of religious freedom, a festival of lights, a time to light the menorah and share a special holiday with friends and family. 
To The Chocolate Box, however, this ancient Jewish festival is all about the chocolate coins.  Coin-shaped chocolates, wrapped in gold or silver foil, called gelt (Yiddish for money), […]

An alluring spokeswoman for the Max Brenner chocolate company in Australia recently implored me to join her for an orchid hot chocolate, swearing by the floral beverage’s aphrodisiac properties.  Since orchids are the source of countless fascinations and fixations (and even phobias, I’m told), this seemed like a stirring topic for Sugar Savvy’s hot chocolate column.  […]

Reviewed this week: Collon, green milk tea flavored from Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd.
Ingredients: sugar, wheat flour, shortening, whole milk powder, dextrin, lactose, whole milk powder, cheese powder, corn syrup, green tea powder, potato starch, cream powder, brandy, palm oil, salt, nonfat dry milk, high fructose corn syrup, artificial flabor [sic], sorbitol, soya lecithin, baking soda
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Between the summer and fall fruits being harvested, and the holidays rolling around I know there have been lots of pies baked and eaten.  There’s just something about this time of year that makes me think of pie, at least when I think of dessert.  I guess it’s probably because so many people bake up […]

This week Vere Chocolate will be opening the doors to their New York City chocolate factory to the public.  The factory will be opening its Manhattan doors to the public Wednesday (Dec 13)- Friday (Dec 15).  As if being able to check out the factory and see what goes on behind the scenes isn’t enough, all […]

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Christmas involves far more than just candy canes, but truth be told, for most of us Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without candy canes.  And as much as I love the darn things I always seem to end up with way too many.  Seriously.  It seems like I’ll buy a box, then I’ll be given some here and there until […]

There are a whole group of candies out there that seem to belong to another generation, whispering perhaps of a time when keeping fine candies on hand to offer to even the most casual of guests was considered the mark of a gracious host or hostess.  Or perhaps, it was gracious guests who would keep […]