I knew they would be in the pre-holiday trenches when I visited, so I had offered to pitch in—and after a quick tour, Liddabit founder Liz Gutman handed me a bandana and an apron and led me into the kitchen, where the candy-making team was buzzing around making nougat, honeycomb, and marshmallows while they finished their morning Biscuit Machine.
Caramel was beginning to boil in a massive copper pot over a flaming burner. Everyone was bopping their heads to Paul Simon’s Graceland album, on repeat.One of the crew, Monique Henry, handed me a knife and got me set up stemming and halving figs for their fig-ricotta caramels—and for the next five hours I stood at the elbows of Liddabit’s candy-makers Monique, Michelle, and Jessie Euell, learning the rhythms they know so well and trying to keep up with them as they work.
Last week, Candy Crush Saga, the mind-numbingly simple yet addictive game that involves matching coloured sweets, was estimated to be worth $7.1bn. While that amount dropped by 16% after the company’s Wall Street debut, it still left the gaming geniuses behind the free app worth billions.Candy Crush is played by 93 million people every day, and it accrues an estimated $800,000 daily through players purchasing new lives and boosters that help them to conquer new levels.
All told, half a billion people have downloaded the free app, and King Digital Entertainment, the company behind the phenomenon, reportedly netted $568m last year alone.Here’s a sweet Secret in Denver, Colorado…Located in an industrial part of town, Hammond’s Candies has been making candy that’s handmade, hand-wrapped, and hand labeled since 1920. That makes them the oldest handmade confectioner in the country.
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Caramel was beginning to boil in a massive copper pot over a flaming burner. Everyone was bopping their heads to Paul Simon’s Graceland album, on repeat.One of the crew, Monique Henry, handed me a knife and got me set up stemming and halving figs for their fig-ricotta caramels—and for the next five hours I stood at the elbows of Liddabit’s candy-makers Monique, Michelle, and Jessie Euell, learning the rhythms they know so well and trying to keep up with them as they work.
Last week, Candy Crush Saga, the mind-numbingly simple yet addictive game that involves matching coloured sweets, was estimated to be worth $7.1bn. While that amount dropped by 16% after the company’s Wall Street debut, it still left the gaming geniuses behind the free app worth billions.Candy Crush is played by 93 million people every day, and it accrues an estimated $800,000 daily through players purchasing new lives and boosters that help them to conquer new levels.
All told, half a billion people have downloaded the free app, and King Digital Entertainment, the company behind the phenomenon, reportedly netted $568m last year alone.Here’s a sweet Secret in Denver, Colorado…Located in an industrial part of town, Hammond’s Candies has been making candy that’s handmade, hand-wrapped, and hand labeled since 1920. That makes them the oldest handmade confectioner in the country.
See more at:http://www.waifanfoodmachine.com/
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