Thursday, February 01, 2007

All Valentines Candy Week

imageThat’s right, for the first full week of February it’ll be all Valentines all the time. I’ll even have profiles of at least a half a dozen upscale chocolatiers to add to the Chocolate Gift Guide.

If there's anything you've seen in the stores you'd rather I taste tested, dissected, photographed first, well chime in now. In the mean time, regular reviews continue below. (Here's my current list o' goodies.)

POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:25 pm    

Comments

  1. Congratulations for your blog.
    Candies are a tasty bad habit!

    Comment by H on 2/03/07 at 8:30 am

     

  2. Id like you to tell us about stubbechocolates truffles or one of there cakes even just to be a bit different, if possible.

    Comment by A on 2/04/07 at 4:16 am

     

  3. Cool, I can’t wait for the upscale choclatiers.  I had a box recently from a small confectioner in France that were mighty tasty!

    Comment by D on 2/04/07 at 6:37 am

     

  4. Ah- can’t wait!

    Comment by rob1 on 2/04/07 at 7:08 am

     

  5. The Valentine’s candy reviews are a great public service.  Thank you!

    Comment by good enough cook on 2/08/07 at 9:01 am

     

  6. So what are those candy ring hearts there, Cybele?

    Comment by Jeanna on 2/11/07 at 6:27 am

     

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