Showing posts with label True Confections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True Confections. Show all posts
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Nazi Chocolate Plot

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Much as I have moved on from all things chocolate since the publication of my last novel True Confections  two years ago, today's ...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

The Perils of Vanity

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One of the charmingly weird pieces of information that has come out about the arrest of fugitive gangster Whitey Bulger (see previous post) ...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

The Music Lesson redux

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This week, the new Broadway paperback of my second novel, The Music Lesson , was published. I am thrilled that my 1999 novel has steadily ap...
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

$1.9 BILLION DOLLARS for Halloween Candy?

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According to Nielsen Research, America spent approximately $1.9 billion for candy this Halloween season. That's a lot of candy. The most...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

One Out of Four

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Many of the brands we think of today as classic or even iconic herald from the golden era of candy manufacturing, when there were hundreds o...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Enough Cacao Beans for Five Billion Chocolate Bars?

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What's the story with the cocoa bean guy? Big screaming headlines around the world have been reporting on the mysterious hedge fund mana...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Kids and Grownups Love It So!

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At the spectacularly fun candy convention in Chicago in May, one of the most useful nuggets of information I acquired was the correct pronun...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

It Probably Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

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Maybe this was the thinking: Miley Cyrus, popular with kids, check. Candy, popular with kids, check. Hannah Montana Candy, genius! Candy sho...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Is There a 4th of July Candy Tradition? No There is Not.

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Candy is associated with many American holidays, but to the eternal sorrow and frustration of the candy industry, there is nothing really in...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

The Ingenius Q

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Immortalized by Ian Fleming as Q in the Bond books, Charles Fraser-Smith was a resourceful inventor employed by the British Ministry of Supp...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Man Bait!

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Last week in Chicago, as I wandered the aisles of the Sweets & Snacks Expo at McCormick Place, I had the recurring hall of mirrors exper...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Tastes Like Red!

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I am just back from the fabulous 2010 Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago -- the largest candy trade show in the Americas -- and one of the ...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Hershey Train

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Why didn't I include a reference in True Confections to Milton S. Hershey's train, still functioning in Cuba today? In 1927, Hershe...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

I forgot the bris!

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Why wasn't there a ritual circumcision for Jacob Ziplinsky in True Confections , complete with a contentious Ziplinsky family gathering ...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Strange Candy Bar Concepts

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If you thought the Fat Emma, the Cherry Hump, and the Chicken Dinner were strange candy bar names, consider the Love Nest, which I have neve...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

A Supreme Court Candy Moment

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When you hear the words "Whitman's Sampler," what does it conjure up? A box of chocolates, designed to resemble a traditional ...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Building the Cinnamon Bomb

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Nello Ferrara of the Ferrara Pan Candy family invented the Atomic FireBall in 1954, inspired by the postwar optimistic embrace of all things...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Most Boring Game in the Universe!

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Ever wonder why the game of CANDY LAND was SO b-o-r-i-n-g ? A certain Eleanor Abbott, herself afflicted with polio, dreamed up the game in ...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Daylight Savings, Halloween, and the Candy Industry

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During the Q & A at an event for True Confections yesterday afternoon, I was asked if I had a comment about the candy industry's ef...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Cocoanut Ping!

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I have recently discovered a trove of obscure Mars candy bar boxes. Apparently the new Coconut M&Ms are not the first time Mars has vent...
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