Twizzlers or Red Vines? Never has a confectionery question
so divided the masses. While researching this month’s licorice trends feature,
I took an unscientific poll of my co-workers and Facebook friends regarding
their preferences and was bombarded with responses.
When Mars
Chocolate North America launched the M&M’S
Pretzel earlier this year, I’m sure
there were consumers out there who wondered what took them so long. After all,
it’s not like rocket science.
Sports fans look forward to Super Bowl commercials almost as much as they do the big game. They laugh and groan at the best and the worst ads (not to mention football plays), and often spend the next day chatting with coworkers and e-mailing friends about which ones were most memorable, sharing YouTube links to instant replays not of their favorite quarterback’s fancy footwork, but of Pepsi’s latest campaign, for example.
The global chocolate and cocoa industry, the U.S. Department of Labor, Senator Tom Harkin and U.S. Representative Eliot Engel, together with representatives from Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), launched a new “Framework of Action” in support of preventing child labor abuses prevalent in cocoa farming.
Bernie Pacyniak Editor-in-Chief About a week or so ago, New York City-based Packaged Facts released its latest report on chocolate: “Chocolate Market in the U.S.: Trends and Opportunities in Premium,
Most of you have undoubtedly heard and used the term “dog days of summer.” Typically, the phrase correlates with the months of July and August, referring to the hottest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, a time when dogs - and humans - feel listless.
For the 3 million Americans who suffer from Celiac Disease, going on a diet that’s free from wheat gluten is a necessary way of life. For celebrities whose bodies tolerate it just fine, going gluten-free is simply a fad.
The literal translation is “beautiful, marvelous.” I suppose we could
Americanize it by saying “A beautiful thing!” What am I referring to?
Brazil, in general, and the country’s confectionery industry,
specifically.
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