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PRAISE FOR CANDYFREAK "Hysterically funny . . . A delicious read."-PEOPLE "Combines the patter of a stand-up comic with the soul of a 10-year-old whose allowance is burning a hole in his pocket . . . A story as all-American as the aroma of peanut butter and milk chocolate wafting from its pages."-THE BOSTON GLOBE "This is gonzo food writing at its best. Candyfreak is like a good candy bar: a piece of delicious, ephemeral fun." -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE PRAISE FOR CANDYFREAK"Hysterically funny . . . A delicious read."-PEOPLE "Combines the patter of a stand-up comic with the soul of a 10-year-old whose allowance is burning a hole in his pocket . . . A story as all-American as the aroma of peanut butter and milk chocolate wafting from its pages."-THE BOSTON GLOBE "This is gonzo food writing at its best. Candyfreak is like a good candy bar: a piece of delicious, ephemeral fun." -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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From the Back Cover
"You can almost taste the marshmallow." --USA TodayDo you remember Caravelles, Choco-Lites, Oompahs, and Marathons? Or how about Cookies n' Mints or Kit Kat Darks? Steve Almond does, but many of these candies can't be found anymore, and Almond wanted to know why. Where'd they go? When Almond embarked on a nationwide journey he discovered a candy industry ruled by conglomerates, where the little guys, the last remaining link to the golden age of the candy bar in America, struggle to survive. Makers of theTwin Bing, the Idaho Spud, the Goo Goo Cluster, the Valomilk, and a dozen other quirky bars, invited Almond in for a peek at how glorious candy can be.Part candy porn and polemic, part social history and confession, this is the story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy -- and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up, too."Brilliant! Candyfreak has neither calories nor cabs." --People magazine (Critic's Choice)"An exuberant tribute to cheap, plentiful, locally produced sweets and "the small, attainable pleasures" they provide. Like a good candy bar: a piece of delicious, ephemeral fun." --San Francisco Chronicle"The verdict: Utterly irresistible." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution"Combines the patter of a stand-up comic with the soul of a 10-year-old whose allowance is burning a hole in his pocket.. . . . An off-the-wall odyssey." --Boston Globe"There are people who enjoy an occasional Milky Way and then there's Steve Almond (yes, that's his real name)." -Entertainment WeeklyAs seen on CNN and Food TV.Steve Almond is the author of the acclaimed story collection My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B.Chow and Other Stories. He teaches creative writing at Boston College, and has eaten at least one piece of candy every single day of his entire life.
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Product details
Series: Harvest Book
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harvest Books; Reprint edition (April 4, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780156032933
ISBN-13: 978-0156032933
ASIN: 0156032937
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
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In Chapter 1 of Candy Freak, author Steve Almond introduces himself and explains his candy obsession at some length. And while eating candy may be a self-indulgent amusement, writing generally isn't and Almond's initial approach makes for some slow, taffy-like reading.By Chapter 2, though, Almond focuses on the real treat - the candy itself. Because the Big Three candy conglomerates of Nestle, Hershey's and Mars denied Almond access to their homogenized, candy-making processes, we instead enter the world of the mom-and-pop outfits whose most important ingredients are tradition, pride, craftsmanship and love. They richly narrate the heart of Almond's story, the passion of candy making, with his back story - the passion of candy eating - providing a welcome and very funny context.Halfway through the book, those two stories blend into his third story about the business side of candy. Like family-run hardware stores, independent bookstores, local coffee shops, self-publishing and small-town five-and-dimes, the homemade candy business is disappearing, too, crushed by the weight of the global candy companies who wield enormous economies of scale, can pay the outrageous shelf rack fees and control the distribution networks. Almond argues that what also gets lost in this ruthless attention to the bottom line and shareholder value is that candy-making passion, the unique flavors and variety.There's a fourth storyline lurking in here that local businesses are doomed since by their very nature they aren't designed to outgrow their market yet their niche is being poached by big-footed competitors with deep pockets. That's a different kind of feeding frenzy for another book, although Almond sidetracks his main story and editorializes about the subject, anyway.Except for Chapter 1 and his sermonizing about big business, this is a good, bittersweet journey through the heart and soul of America as told by a candy freak.
Now I Know What Happened to some of my Favorite Candy Companies.....when I was a kid in the early 1960s, I could find some of the coolest candy that a decade or so later seemed to just disappear. I always wondered why? What happened to some of these yummy beloved candies. The author of this book fills you in on the take over of what he calls "The Big Three"...Hershey...Nestled and Mars. They now dominate what candy Americans consume. He explains slotting fees that get these candies placed by the check out counters edging out the smaller candy businesses who cannot afford to pay these slotting fees. The GOOD news is....some of our favorite retro candy bars are STILL out there. You just have to find them either on more of a regional basis or even via ordering online. I was THRILLED to find out that the Chase Candy Co. Still makes their sweet cherry/chocolate/roasted "Cherry Mash". And I almost jumped for joy to discover the "Idaho Spud" candy bar was still being made too! As a fellow candy FREAK....I feel that the author is a kindred spirit. This is a fun book to read and it's neat to read of the authors tours that he made through various candy factories across the country. This book is also very FUNNY! Much of it really cracked me up. A delightful, nostalgic book. ( Now pass me an Idaho Spud please!)
In Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America author Steve Almond tells us three important facts in the prologue:1. The author has eaten a piece of candy every single day of his entire life. (pg 1)2. The author thinks about candy at least once an hour. (pg 3)3. The author has between three and seven pounds of candy in his house at all times. (pg 6)Almond also admits he has a stash of 14 boxes of Kit Kat Limited Edition Dark in a warehouse as well as other secret stashes of candy in case of an emergency.Obviously Almond has established his candy street creds to be the self-titled candyfreak, although he admits:"I am not blind to the hypocrisy of my conduct, nor to the slightly pathetic aspects of my freakdom. I am, after all, in my mid-thirties, suffering from severe balding anxiety and lowerback pain. I am not exactly the target demographic." (pg 8)Besides being a candyfreak, Almond began to reminisce about favorite candy bars that were no longer made, the Caravelle, or candy he had when he lived in California that is not available in Massachusetts. This lead him to investigate some of the independent candy companies that are still in business. He met the owners, toured the factories, saw the steps they took to make their candy, and, naturally, received numerous free samples. His visits include trips to: Dorchester, Massachusetts where Necco wafers and candy hearts are made; Burlington, Vermont and the Five Star Bar; Sioux City, Iowa's Palmer Candy, maker of the Twin Cherry Bing; Kansas City's Sifers' Valomilk, Boise, Idaho's Idaho Candy Company, maker of the Idaho Spud; and California's Annabelle Candy Company, maker of the Big Hunk, U-no, and Abba-Zaba.Almond also interviews some other interesting characters. Steve Traino, another candyfreak, buys and sells discontinued items online on the nostalgia market. Ray Broekel, who wrote two books on the history of candy bars has a collection of memorabilia and is the industry's historian. The history of the candy bar is also the history of the big three: Hershey, Mars, and Nestle. Their power has greatly endangered the local independent candy makers - that and the cost to have your product displayed on store shelves, slotting fees, which are ridiculously high.I found Candyfreak wildly entertaining. Almond was hilarious at times. His genuine interest in candy and how it is made as he describes the candy-making process at various factories was palpable and palatable. If there was one drawback to Candyfreak it was that the tours of the factories, while focusing on different products, also seemed to be very similar experiences.I very highly recommend CandyfreakQuotes:Every now and again, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate or other sweets, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably--this must be said--total duds in bed. Page 16I suppose I was aware, in an abstract way, that there were men and women upon this earth who served in this capacity, as chocolate engineers. In the same way that I was aware that there are job titles out there such as bacon taster and sex surrogate, which is to say, job titles that made me want to weep over my own appointed lot in life. But I had never considered the prospect of visiting a chocolate engineer. I could think of nothing else for days. Page 103"What you're eating," Dave said, "is a dried cherry, infused with raspberry and covered in a Select Origin 75 percent dark chocolate." He held out the bag. "Have another."Here is what I wanted to say to Dave Bolton at that precise moment: Take me home and love me long time, GI." Page 104In some sense, though, this decadence is a return to the pre-Columbian days of cocoa, when the bean was viewed as a gift from the god Quetzalcoatl and considered the domain of royalty. Five hundred years later, Theobroma cacao (literally: food of the gods) remains the single most complex natural flavor in the world. Flavorists have been trying to reproduce the taste for decades--and they're nowhere near doing so. This is because chocolate is made up of more than 1,200 chemical components, many of which give off distinct notes, of honey or roses or even spoiled fish. There's even one chemical in chocolate that's cyanide-based. This is to say nothing of chocolate's oft-touted psychoactive ingredients, which include caffeine, theobromine (increases alertness), phenylalanine and phenylethylamine (both known to induce happiness), and anandamide, which is similar to THC (yes, stoners, that THC). In truth, most of the brouhaha over these chemicals is trumped up. They only occur in trace amounts. The main reason chocolate is the ultimate physiological freak is because it's half sugar and half fat. Page 107I will leave it to the reader to determine just what sort of "diet" would encourage the consumption of these ingredients, though it bears mentioning that this product is but one in a tsunami of pseudo-candy bars, variously called PowerBars, Granola bars, Energy Bars, Clif Bars, Breakfast Bars, Snack Bars, Wellness Bars, and so on, all of which contain roughly the same sugar and fat as an actual candy bar--with perhaps a dash of protein sawdust thrown in--but only half the guilt, and stand as a monument both to shameless marketing and the American capacity for self-delusion, particularly in matters related to consumption (see also: frozen yogurt, fat-free chips, and low-calorie lard). Page 135Most of our escape routes are also powerful reminders; and whatever our conscious motives might be, in our secret hearts we wish to be led back into our grief. Page 250
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