Sugar Savvy

A favorite shopping stop of mine is Harry’s Farmer’s Market. It has long since been bought by Whole Foods, but it hasn’t lost too much of its local charm.  As I walked by what I call the “whopping wall of chocolate,” I noticed tall color-coated boxes labeled as Graffiti Zoo.  A local product out of […]

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 […]

Candy lovers everywhere rejoiced this June in honor of National Candy Month.  Did you celebrate?
I certainly did, with a little help from the nice people at Emily’s Chocolates, who sent me some of their Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries to sample.
Emily’s Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries are part of their Every Day Treasures Line and come in a […]

As I am now back in Australia, it seems fitting that I choose an Australian-made piece of confectionary to review instead of one of the many US-bought chocolate bars I brought back with me in my suitcase. Sweet William is a company that makes chocolates free from dairy, gluten, lactose, sugar, cholesterol, peanuts, trans fats, […]

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 […]

Admit it … you love brownies. What’s not to love about this rich, dense, moist chocolate confection? So when a craving hits you, what do you do: (1) whip up a homemade batch, or (2) reach for the convenience of a brownie mix?
Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures and you reach for a boxed brownie […]

A few days ago, my parents returned from a little European vacation. The only thing I asked that they bring me (other than some nice, smoky Spanish paprika) was a little turron or torrone, delicious soft honey nougat studded with nuts, from Spain and Italy, respectively (the two countries on their itinerary). Nougat, as opposed […]

Many of us know that eating chocolate with 70% chocolate solids does the body good, helping the body fight against heart disease and high blood pressure. The particular chocolates I have been using the most lately, unsweetened chocolate and bittersweet chocolate, have led to desserts that have been popular choices by my chocolate eating friends.  In fact, I rarely […]

Another day, another Dolfin. Now, if I lived in Monkey Mia and this was a wildlife website, that sentence would have an entirely different meaning (at least if it was heard, rather than read). However, seeing as I’m currently not anywhere near Western Australia and squirrels are about as close to wildlife as I’ve come in […]

I have been sitting on these tasting notes for ages. Like most of my notes, I guess. I bought these four Joseph Schmidt truffles last winter when I was in California. Joseph Schmidt used to be an independent truffle maker; now they, along with Dagoba and Scharffen Berger, are owned by Hershey’s Artisan Confections subsidiary. […]