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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Fancy Food Show 2009 Notes - Day Two
Picked up some ample samples of Figamajigs with Mint which are just lovely in a white and pale green candy coated lentil style and their Figamajigs Raspberry bar. Love their simple combination of real figs and cocoa with dark chocolate.
They also featured the return of their fabulous novelty foil treats for Easter. Chuao looked colorful and spicy as usual. I mentioned that the Firecracker, introduced last year at the All Candy Expo, was a bit too spicy for me and they were happy to report they’ve cut the spice. Sure enough, it’s much easier on my throat, but still has a warm burn to it (plus the fun of the pop rocks).
This photo is of their ginger truffle, which I didn’t try, but I did have their lemon truffle and thought that was tasty as well. L’Estasi Dolce had the best truffle of the day. They do a line of wine infused truffles, but it was the was Lemongrass and Ginger in dark chocolate that was the real winner for me.
Gifford was a nice find, great traditional wax paper wrapped caramels. Also a great story of a company with a great heritage brought back from bankruptcy. Ferrara Pan, known for Lemonheads & Atomic Fireballs, has expanded into chocolate panned goodies recently. I tried some of their nuts, but was taken with their Dark Chocolate Covered Biscotti. It’s a mild, semisweet chocolate and a hard, crunchy biscotti bite. Very munchable.
On the non-candy front: Q Tonic was really refreshing, all tonic & citrus and virtually no sweetness. Dry Soda has a really nice array of soda flavors, no high fructose corn sweetener and a really great not-quite sweet flavor. Rogue Creamery makes great Blue Cheese. But I think everyone already knows that. Coach Farms from New York had some lovely goat cheeses, especially their triple cream. (All photos by Emanuel Treeson, (c) All Rights Reserved) POSTED BY Cybele AT 5:41 am
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.Nice post, enjoyed seeing all the goodies
Everything sounds great! I know how easy it is to get overwhelmed at those shows and you are doing a great job of breaking it down.
I pick up a bag of figamajigs every time i go to target. I love them!
My mother would go nuts for a candied lemon like that. I need to look out for the Dry Soda line.
oh no! they discontinued the chocolate pretzel balls???? they still have them at my TJs…. i may have to ask them and then stock up. LOVE those.
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