NEW ARTICLE: Divvies Cupcakes, Cookies & Popcorn

Buy enough to divvy because you won’t want to share.   We get boxes and boxes of sweet delights sent to us weekly, and many provide great gustatory enjoyment. But a box of Divvies chocolate cupcakes and a tub of vanilla icing provided so much pure glee, we felt no need to add the multicolored…
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PRODUCT WATCH: New Recchiuti Artist In Burnt Caramel

Every six months or so, San Francisco chocolatier Michael Recchiuti adds a new Bay Area artist to his Artisan Collection, an “edible chocolate gallery” of limited edition chocolates. The artist creates four representative images, and both the chocolatier and his customers have a new way to support the arts! A new collection has just debuted,…
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NEWS: Hot Stuff Is Healthy Stuff

  “Chile heads”—people who can’t get enough hot habañeros in their daily diets—are on a healthier road than the rest of us, according to new medical research. Capsaicin, the heat component in chiles, is an antioxidant and a proven anti-inflammatory just like Aleve and Tylenol. It also kills cancer cells, prevents sinus infections, provides gastric…
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PRODUCT WATCH: The “Original” Energy Bar

When Native Americans and European immigrants hit the trail and needed energy, they carried the original energy bar, pemmican—a mixture of meat, fat and dried fruit.   Now, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Company has gone back to its ancestral roots for a healthy, natural alternative to the energy bars now on the market: the…
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