The Accidental Hedonist’s Guide to Candy

There’s enough posts out there to warrant this now, so I will oblige.

Ingredients

Sugar

• Stages of Sugar Boiling

Chocolate

• Don’t Mess With Our Chocolate
• Chocolate and Easter

History

• Candy from the Earliest Cookbook
• From Cane to Grain: History of Sugar Pt. 2
• Enter the Sugar Cane
• Nuts to You!
• Blurring the Candy Line – Granola
• Honey Pt. 2 – Whither candy?
• Honey Pt. 1
• Fruit Juice
• Fruit processing
• Candy History: The Most Basic Premise
• The (Pre?) History of Candy

Trivia

• So, yeah…About German Chocolate
• The Original Three Musketeers
• One contender for the title of “First Candy in History”
• Things I did not know…Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
• Manufactured Luck: KitKat in Japan
• Some Candy Statistics (circa 2006)

Types of Candy

• I ask again: What defines “candy”?

Licorice

• Licorice’s Dark Secret
• Licorice Taste Test: Chateau D’Lanz

Pulled Sugar

• The History of Candy Canes

Pictures

• The Great Scottish Candy Haul
• Another Candy Photo Binge
• Flickr Set – Candy
• Flickr Set – Chocolate

Miscellaneous

• The Joy of a British Candy Shop
• The Value of Halloween Candy
• The Tragic Tale of Grape Bubble Yum
• Grandma Candy
• Kit Kat vs. Kit Kat

Usual Disclaimer: This is a work in progress, and will likely always be a work in progress. So if there’s something missing here, I probably have some plans to address that at some point in the future.

Additionally, I am human, which means I make mistakes. If you see something wrong, I would love it if you pointed me in the right direction. Feel free to e-mail me at Kate AT accidentalhedonist DOT com with any tips, hints, or advice you may have.

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