gourmet

Warwick cookies at the Emmy’s

Warwick, N.Y. — In June, Lisa’s Cookie Shop accepted an invitation to include its products in the 2010 Official Daytime Emmy Award Show gift bags. The gift bags were distributed to all presenters, winners and attendees of the award show in Las Vegas on June 27. Read more...

Mountain Air Gourmet Co. sells a smorgasbord of regional food products

If you are what you eat, then we are what we produce.

A glance at a new store's shelves reveals that Southwest Colorado is a unique blend of communities sprinkled with zesty subcultures. There's something for everyone: granola with hemp for tree-hugging liberals, traditional jams for conservative ranching families, elk sausage for rugged outdoorsmen - even curry-coconut peanuts to satisfy big-city transplants. Read more...

Bringing mom's macaroons to the mass market

Shoreview, MN — The development of his first food-related business has been a sweet deal for Larry Shiller of Shoreview.

The 67-year-old entrepreneur has developed a brand of dark chocolate macaroon cookies named for his mother, whose maiden name was Lily Bloom, that he’s producing in Minneapolis and marketing internationally. The handmade coconut-filled treats will be featured on an episode of the Rachael Ray show set to air July 19, and Shiller expects annual sales to exceed $1 million within the next five years. Read more...

A Love For Chocolate Turns Into ‘Sweetness’

What’s not to love about Zaharenia, a custom chocolate gift shop in Oakland Gardens? It’s filled with chocolate.

“I’ve had a lot of jobs, but somehow or another, I always found myself going back to chocolate,” said owner Alexandra Eglezos. Read more...

AJ's Edible Arts a tasty success story in Pasco

Pasco, WA — Twenty-two years ago, Alice Jones of Kennewick was an unemployed bookkeeper.

Today, she's president of AJ's Edible Arts of Pasco, which manufactures eight mustards, salsa, cheese ball and salad dressing mixes and a plum-based ketchup. Read more...

Sweet dream realized on S.F.'s Russian Hill

When Diane and Brian Campbell loaded their car on New Year's Day in 1996 and left Manhattan for San Francisco, they knew no one and were short on money - but had a long-held dream.

After a string of odd jobs, months of working on a business plan, and years of searching for the right space in San Francisco, the husband and wife team opened the Candy Store, a 400-square-foot boutique on Russian Hill that specializes in nostalgic and artisanal candy. Read more...

Marie’s Candies a flurry of activity in West Liberty

West Liberty — Since January, employees at Marie’s Candies in West Liberty have been busy preparing for Easter, lining the shelves with thousands of chocolate rabbits and decorating cream-filled eggs the size of softballs.

The store, which has been family-owned since the 1950s, makes a big deal out of Easter. In a small factory separated into just a couple of rooms, its employees churn out more than 7,000 chocolate bunnies and 8,000 cream-filled eggs for customers across the country. Read more...

Baking invention gives Carmel couple an edge

Carmel, Ind. -- Matt Griffin was a young bachelor just trying to figure out how to bake some brownies when he hit on an idea that has really cooked.

National newspapers and network television ultimately came calling to hear about his idea that has become one of those only-in-America tales of an upstart entrepreneur. Read more...

The future tastes good

"You are about to make a new friend," "You are cautious in showing your true self to others," "Help, I'm trapped in a fortune cookie factory!"

The fortune cookie.

Break it open and just discover your destiny, or play a little game — swap the cookies with your partner before reading, or just add the phrase "in bed" at the end of your fortune — however you have your cookies, it's always a surprise. And at Fantastic Fortune Cookies in Rollinsford, it's a big surprise. With two huge sizes of delicious cookies — as big as your fist or even huger — and a fortune you can create yourself, these cookies are tasty and filled with fun. Read more...

Taste of home

With hundreds of farms, craftspeople and artisans in the Pacific Northwest, even Dorene Kirkingburg – while setting up her locally-made gift store in Olde Towne St. Helens – is learning of new regional products everyday.

Kirkingburg, 50, is what you might call an expert on Northwest wares. Read more...