Sugar Savvy

Ok, that was sort of a silly way of putting it. But Orbit has launched two new flavors in its 14-stick package, which you can find at the supermarket checkout: Strawberry Mint and Positively Pomegranante. I’m a big fan of their mix of mint and fruit flavors. Out of the two of them, strawberry mint […]

The latest incarnation of sweet gummy items from Life Savers comes in the form of Island Fruits Gummies. There are four flavors: fruit punch, pineapple, strawberry kiwi, and mango melon. My chief complaint is that not all of the flavors distinctly resemble their namesake or are strong enough. Oddly, my favorite was fruit punch because […]

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’ll admit it. I ate the ice cream and strawberries you see photographed here, generously drizzled with chocolate sauce, before noon. I had important work to do; chocolate does not discriminate when it comes to the clock. What you’re seeing here, dear readers, ain’t no Hershey’s chocolate sauce. It’s Donya Marie’s Original Decadence dark chocolate […]

Serendipity: It’s not just a name of a popular spot in New York that serves frozen hot chocolate. No, it’s what happened this week when a monstrous snowstorm hit much of the Northeast, leaving a blanket of winter in its wake and I had a post due for this site. What better way to celebrate […]

I can’t believe I’ve never made caramel apples before. I’ve eaten them, surely, and their candied cohort, although I prefer the caramel to the faux-lollipop texture of candied apples. With one of my favorite varieties of apples in full swing right now — honeycrisp — I decided it was time to remedy this situation.
Many recipes […]

The best way to describe the taste of Green & Black’s Organic Milk Chocolate with Toffee? Thick. Like drinking-a-pint-of-Guinness thick.
After eating a few squares, I had to stop. It was enough. You know how people say you should have really good sweets in moderation? Green & Black’s makes that very easy to accomplish. Normally, […]

I kinda can’t deal with how good Emily’s Dark Chocolate Covered blueberries are. They’re dangerously addictive. I am also surprised to say that they taste better than any other chocolate-covered blueberry product I have eaten in Maine, a place where blueberries are revered and served in a seemingly endless permutation of delicious options.
These little dark […]

Ah, Starbucks. Is there anything you can’t put into your coffee-loving maw? Or, more to the point, is there anything loyal Starbucks customers won’t put in their own coffee-loving maws? The company’s latest foray comes in the form of “artisan style” chocolate, which bears the following slogan: “When coffee dreams, it dreams of chocolate.” The […]

First, complete disclosure. I did not come up with the brilliant idea of vanilla sugar. Full credit goes to the domestic goddess herself, Nigella Lawson, who advocates its usage in her cookbooks, which I admittedly purchase with the devotion of a religious follower. Okay, so I exaggerate. But she is pretty cool.
A couple of weeks […]