PRODUCT: Amella Artisan Caramels

Amella’s Black Forest Caramel: chocolate caramel with cherries, creamy white icing and shaved chocolate—just like a Black Forest cake. Amella Cocoa Butter Caramels are lip-smackingly good, made with butter, cream and real fruits and vegetables. Vegetables? Yes, in the Carrot Cake caramel. Aside from carrots, the twist that makes these different from other gourmet caramels…
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PRODUCT: Superfruit Jelly Beans—Yeah, Right!

This past Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, we tripped the light fantastic* (actually, lumbered around on a very hard concrete floor) of the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, along with some 24,000 other attendees in search of the newest specialty foods—140,000 were on display. Usually we do a Best of Show list—and we’ll get…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Caffe Acapella Coffee Candy Bars

Each candy bar delivers the caffeine content of two cups of coffee! Photography by Corey Lugg | THE NIBBLE. Styling by Lauren LaPenna. Many people love a good cup of coffee. And they love a good chocolate bar. So now, how about a coffee bar—not an eating establishment where you get a cup of coffee,…
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FATHER’S DAY: See’s Candies Milk Chocolate Seegars

Dad will light up with happiness when you hand him a box of See’s Candies chocolate “Seegars” (how long were the See’s folks waiting to be able to make that pun!). In fact, at the economical price of $6.30 for a box of three, you can afford to hand out Seegars to all of your…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Gourmet Easter Chocolate Gifts

Good things come in small rocher nests. Rochers are caramelized chocolate-covered almond slivers, formed by L.A. Burdick Handmade Chocolate into a special Easter nest filled with 8 chocolate truffles, 8 marzipan eggs and a small chocolate bunny. Charmingly gift-boxed, it’s memorable. All over America, boys and girls of all ages (yes, you!) are looking with…
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