Sugar Savvy

Someone gave me the cutest little container of caramels as a little thank you gift recently.  Delicious, and not too sweet.  But, the caramel like the kind I received can be a little pricey.  Not to worry.  You can make caramel at home with a limited amount of ingredients. 
When warm, it’s perfect on a bowl of ice cream.  […]

Great news, Mother’s Cookies are back!  I had previously shared with you here the sad news that Mother’s Cookies was going out of business in October 2008 when the company filed bankruptcy.  The California institution was thankfully saved by Kellogg’s, who bought the rights to the trademarks and recipes.
Mother’s cookies made their return to stores […]

I love Whole Foods, yet don’t go in as much as I used to since there isn’t one too, too near my home.  When I do get to stop in, I make sure I take my time.  Recently, I went to pick up flowers for a friend staying in one the nearby Atlanta hospitals.  Before […]

I was surprised at the show of self control I exercised while in Costco, walking past a giant bag of Brookside Dark Chocolate Covered Pomegranates.  Pomegranates… a huge weakness for this girl!  Nonetheless, I wasn’t at the store for me. I was there for work… work, I had to keep thinking work.
Then, it was onto […]

Taza Chocolate made it onto my radar via my friends Justin and Nana, who highly recommended it. Unfortunately, because they’re a small artisan company, the chocolate isn’t that widely sold in stores, and shipping chocolate gets expensive, so I resigned myself to waiting until the next time I went home (probably after graduation) to try […]

While I spent my spring break in the chilly to frigid northeast, my roommate and other friends went south. I was jealous of their sunshine and tans, but at least my friends were thoughtful enough to bring me candy gifts from their warmer climes! Specifically, I got a box of assorted pralines from one of […]

Gums have silly names these days. We’ve long ago left behind the straightforward practice of simply calling a gum by its flavor. Strawberry. Spearmint. Peppermint. And nowadays, pomegranate and mango figure prominently. The flavors need explosive adjectives. And apparently, the gums need to do the same thing. We’re going beyond the juicy middle of the […]

I like it when candy catches my attention, as it’s made to stand out with its brightly colored packaging, fun shapes and delicious flavors. Sour Punch Straws have fallen under my radar again in the past few days, as I’ve been seeing them in the news and on a few commercials on TV. My new […]

This candy bar is one that always made me chuckle when I heard of it. Really, does one need the suggestion to eat more? Pul-eeze. I am already plenty talented in that department. A sweet friend of mine sent one to me from Canada, since that’s Eat-More’s preferred habitat.
There is little known about Eat-More’s origins. […]

Easter signaled the end of the candy season until Halloween, and Easter candy sales were the last chance to stock up on favorites until next year.  Every year I look forward to making the rounds and picking up some of my favorite Easter cand,y as well as trying out a few new things I would […]