![]() ![]() Unfortunately, after reading this book, I was suddenly gripped with the desire to eat chocolate, lots of chocolate. Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. Through his personal experiences and witty humor, he produces an entertaining, informative book on candy and not to mention, himself. Overall, “Candyfreak, A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America," is more of a story about Almond than about candy in America, which is not necessarily a bad thing. He visits multiple candy factories getting loads of free candy, hangs out with a “chocolate engineer," and talks to the last man with Blackjack bubblegum, a guy who buys candy that’s out of stock and resells it to the desperate suffering from candy withdrawals. ![]() The further you read in the book, the more envious of Almond you get. This, Almond says, is the “chocolate spell." On his journey to the small candy companies, Almond introduces us to the sheer magic of the candy “enrober" and describes the complete ecstasy of the “sheen of the chocolate, the tumble of peanuts, the dappled rivers of caramel, the miraculous union of these parts as whole" as the chocolate wave descends and “enrobes" the filling in warm, wavy brown. ![]()
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