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Saturday, November 17, 2007
This Week in Candy - Back in my second home
So I loaded up my car and hit the road with, literally, my weight in candy in the back. This is a huge load off my mind, of course, because now the candy will go to wonderful writers who really, really want it. (And while I really, really want it too, I can’t possibly eat my weight in candy before it spoils, well, I could but then it’d be half my weight in candy.) The second reason I like coming to the Bay Area is that it is home to so many candy companies. Some are fine chocolatiers (many of whom I’ve reviewed now: Recchiuti, Charles Chocolates & Joseph Schmidt) as well as factories like Jelly Belly, Scharffen Berger, Sconza, Annabelle’s, Ghirardelli and Guittard.
Of course any city that makes so much candy has to have good candy stores. So yesterday, knowing that I’d soon be free of 135 pounds of candy, I went and bought some more. I’ll have larger write ups about these in the future, but here was my itinerary (fellow writer YumSugar also came along on the last three stops!):
I also popped by Charles Chocolate on Thursday to taste their new winter assortment and catch up with Chuck Siegel since I haven’t talked to him in a year and since that time they’ve opened their new shop & cafe with the factory adjacent. Chuck was gracious and gave me some wonderful items to sample (in addition to the ones eaten on site and on sight) such as their lemon and blood orange marmalade (perhaps something for Thanksgiving will include this?), the new Caramel Almonds Sticks and his new 65% Bittersweet Bar that includes Candied Hazelnut Pieces (which I hope is like this Mallorca bar I had earlier this year) Monday: Russell Stover Private Reserve Vanilla Bean Brulee (8 out of 10) Tuesday: Mentos - Pine Fresh (Pineapple) (8 out of 10) Wednesday: Cadbury Ornament Creme Egg (4 out of 10) Thursday: Peppermint Peep Stars (6 out of 10) Friday: Sour Jujyfruits (6 out of 10) Average for the week 6.4 with a 20% chocolate content. POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:11 am
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Comment by
Sera on 11/17/07 at 11:17 am #
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.Happy to hear you had a great time! I can’t wait t ohear how you like the Amano Cuyagua and the Coppeneur. I was really impressed with them! Also the new stuff at Charles Chocolates (Chuck is such a sweetheart!) is sooooo goood. I wish I could have tried the blood orange marmelade you mention, but I did try the new bar and it was DEE-LISH!
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