Author Archives for Kate H
Gone, but not Forgotten
One of the many great things about candy is how much sense memory it brings to an individual. When I think about Reese’s Cups, I’m instantaneously transported to my youth, vividly recalling stacking up the dozens of single packaged cups that I had acquired after a night of trick or treating.
I remember the smell […]
Russia gets addicted to chocolate
While there are many reasons to, at the very least, question capitalism, the one thing it definitively brings is the ability to track trends in various industries. This is something to think about when reading this article about the popularity of novelty chocolate. From the article:
Marketing agency Kachalov and Co. said the Russian retail market […]
Idaho Spud
The Associated Press has written up a piece about one of my favorite artisanal candy bars: The Idaho Spud. It’s a brief piece, but it gives some numbers to the amount of candy sold annually. That it’s able to sell about 3 million candy bars in a year provides evidence that candy producers […]
