Again, just when I thought I had a great job… Professional chocolate taster Angus Kennedy (editor of Kennedy’s Confection magazine) offers a super-easy way to test the quality of your chocolate. In this Business Insider video, he demonstrates that when he snaps various chocolate bars, the high-quality chocolate makes…
Few candy bars share Kit Kat’s convenient four-bar snap-off setup. But apparently that doesn’t mean that Nestlé, Kit Kat’s parent company, can corner the market on that particular candy bar form. The BBC reports today that “The European Court Of Justice has thrown out an appeal by the chocolate bar’s maker, Nestlé,…
It’s been at least five or six seconds since we’ve heard about the latest in avocado toast, so looks like it’s time for an update. And if you’re a fan of 2016’s trendiest snack, you may have pondered to yourself, “What if avocado toast… but as a chocolate bar?”
The Lay’s “Do Us A Flavor” campaigns give away big money. So noted. Those brave or foolish enough to enter those choppy potato-chip waters could win a million bucks. That is a large sum. I acknowledge it. But the “Do Us A Flavor” also brought us the Cappuccino potato chip (fortunately it didn’t make it past the…
Hey, far be it from us to cast judgment upon what families choose to name their children, but this story of a North Carolina mom who named her daughter after Reese’s candy is rather extreme: Fox News reports Renee Cupp won a $10,000 prize from the confectionary company after naming her daughter Reese Eve Cupp, or…
A new report from JAMA Ophthalmology suggests that you’d be better off reading JAMA Opthamology after housing some dark chocolate. Everyday Health reports that researchers, including lead study author Jeff Rabin, have found that eating both dark and milk chocolate can positively affect your vision in the short term.
Imagine the joy of finally sitting down to enjoy a well-deserved snack: your favorite, a Reese’s peanut-butter cup. You take a bite… but something seems off. What could it be? You look at your candy and realize, with horror, that it’s all chocolate, no peanut butter. Your peanut-butter cup is just a cup.
The election yesterday between Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb for Pennsylvania’s District 18 was extremely close, even for a longtime-red district. Before the election, to help court voters, Donald Trump not only visited coal country for a rather unhinged rally, he sent his son Donald Trump Jr. to…
Sure, we have a pretty great job, where we are actually getting paid to learn how to make pie. But every once in awhile another attractive offer flies across our desks—and this one includes the advantages of a relocation to England along with a dream schedule.
In Celebrity Recipes, we tackle a favorite recipe from a beloved star, past or present.
Those of you who didn’t grow up in the ’70s will never know the trauma of the various “healthy” foods—like muesli and bean sprouts—that tried to enter the culinary vernacular. During that auspicious decade, germ-filled salad bars and brick-like brown breads were commonplace. In a bitter nutshell, it was a horrible…
A rare crime where we can actually understand the motivation: The German news site DW.com (for Deutsche Welle) reports that some dastardly thieves made off with more than 48 U.S. tons of chocolate, worth almost $500,000 total. The heist “occurred Friday night at an industrial park in the southwest city of Freiburg.”
January is either the worst time to release a new line of ice cream flavors (it’s frickin’ cold!) or the best (we’re frickin’ bored!) To kick off the new year, Ben & Jerry’s is going with the latter. After so many years of churning out rich, progressively minded pints of ice cream, it seems that inspired dessert…
Many adults—especially those in British Commonwealth countries—will remember drinking either Ovaltine or Horlicks as a child, usually served hot at bedtime. For generations, these malted milk drinks were believed to be a surefire way of putting even the most rambunctious kids to sleep, which of course made them…
As we live in Chicago and winters here are a stupid kind of cold, we’d rather not venture outside and instead, stay in and make frothy mugs of hot chocolate. We weren’t satisfied with the Swiss Miss instant stuff, so we asked some of our favorite chefs for advice, as well as our internal staff, several of whom are…
Many of us wait all year for those all-too-brief months of Girl Scout cookie season, which usually occurs in the spring. We fruitlessly stock up on boxes of Trefoils and Tagalongs while knowing, deep in our hearts, that no quantity would ever really be enough, and we’ll be pining for Samoas again by summertime.
We writers, needing constant fuel to pen our hot takes, require some sort of snack in our mouths at all times. We’re not being immodest when we say we’re connoisseurs of any fun-size foods.
When I moved to Canada a few years ago, Montreal welcomed me with free French classes and pastries. To be clear, only the French classes were free. Also there were no pastries in the French classes, or I totally would have gone to more of them.
