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I figure the Hershey folks are just going through the phone book in San Francisco and having purchased Scharffen Berger now they’re plowing through the rest of the S’s and have picked up Joseph Schmidt Chocolates.
Hershey is creating a new subsidiary called Artisan Confections Company which will include Scharffen Berger.
Personally, I’ve never really [...]

A trip to Atwater Farmers Market last weekend. It’s a small market, with what seem to be the same vendors as the one on Saturdays in Silverlake. Fruits, vegetables, hummus & flatbread, fresh juices (including pomegranate), soy candles, fresh bread and flowers.

Yes, there are many food movements afoot. You know, the slow food movement, eating local, raw, sustainable …
But I’ve decided there is a stupid food movement. Or maybe there always has been a genre of stupid food. You know, foodstuffs where people risk their very lives to aquire it, food from highly endangered animals or [...]

Bon Appetit’s 12th annual restaurant is out naming the top five American cities for dining out. Los Angeles is not among them.
“They’re at the top of their game — and each satisfies diners in its own distinctive way. Here’s where to go when you visit, and here’s what to cook from those menus at [...]

Los Angeles boasts a few candies that have been made locally for decades: Big Cherry and Cup-O-Gold.

In honor of the opening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this weekend, I wanted to go on a tour of a candy factory (something I’ve only done one other time … the same year the first adaptation of the book came out). Instead I did something equally fun and sweet. I toured the Candy [...]

Sorry to be late to this pizza party but there are still two nights left for this:
“Through Friday night of this week, the new CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN at Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights (8000 Sunset in the complex with Virgin Records, Laemmle and Crunch) will donate 100% of its pizza sales to AIDS Project Los [...]

I’ll be on KCRW’s radio show Good Food tomorrow (7/9/05) at 11:00 AM talking about candyblog.net. If you don’t live in Southern California where it airs, you can also catch the show on the web via real player on this page after it airs. KCRW also offers PodCasts of its shows.
For those of you that [...]