Sugar Savvy

When Cate extended the offer to review the Sanders Dark Chocolate Peppermint Patties, I said “send those bad boys my way.” (Well, that was my mental response, anyway.) A lifelong fan of mint chocolate, I likely possess a greater range of experience about this particular genre of candy than the average sugar-hole stuffing […]

I never thought I would see the day when a chocolate by Hershey’s would make me drool and swoon, but I now have. I mean, it’s  Hershey’s! They are an American classic, but it’s more due to their iconic status and cool theme park then their quality product. Right?

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe they can […]

Hershey’s Special Dark with Raspberries and Macadamia Pieces is the perfect example of how I am a sucker for pretty much any Limited Edition candy bar - even when it’s full of stuff I don’t typically care to eat.

Although I do not much care for raspberries in my chocolate, I certainly don’t begrudge those who […]

The full five senses gluttony that is Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday is celebrated in Poland and other eastern European countries on Fat Thursday (Tłusty czwartek in Polish) (The last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent). This is a Christian tradition (that has pagan roots, as so much of Christianity does) where […]

This is the last in the regular series of See’s Candies posts for Sugar Savvy. Rest assured that I’ll be paying close attention to See’s Candies’ offerings and will be posting when I see or taste something interesting from this venerable candy maker. I’ll also be writing often about other chocolates and candies.
I want […]

We want to know what your weakness is, whether it’s the sweet and salty combination of a Take 5 or the fruit and nut combination of a Picnic. Or perhaps the plain old Hershey’s bar is more your speed . . . whatever the case, tell us:
If you could have only one commercial mass-produced candy […]

I must confess. I secretly bought myself a box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day, knowing that my husband wouldn’t. I had convinced myself they were for Will, my one and a half year old son, but if that were true I wouldn’t have purchased a box of Lindt Classics - which contain several truffles and […]

When I was in New York visiting Dean and Deluca, I noticed these French fig caramels. However at $14 for a box of 18 small squares, I wasn’t too enthused. However, returning home, I saw them on sale at Sur La Table, and decided to try them out.
These caramels contain all the conventional ingredients of […]

I’m on the road this month, trying to make sense of the food culture on New Zealand’s North Island. Traveling can be hard on cooks–you can’t turn the stove on, you can only find dull knives, and you don’t have access to the carefully curated collection of ingredients in your own kitchen cabinet. On the […]

In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Well Fed team was sent two boxes of chocolates from Ethel’s Chocolates. I have often noticed one of Ethel’s cocoa and pink speckled locations on my visits to Chicago, though have never been inside. When our editor Cate asked if anyone would like to review them, I jumped at […]