Ok. The caramel update is still forthcoming… and so is the now “weekly…ish” BonBonBar photo post. I don’t know where the time goes… Well, maybe it goes towards running a chocolate business in LA by myself (and have I mentioned how Quickbooks is an interminable odyssey in its own right?). But I LOVED all of the suggestions that I got for the caramels, and was so touched by the creativity and thoughtfulness of the ideas. The downside of my business is that I tend to be either busy or tired, but whenever I get a comment or an email from a reader or customer, I am so deeply touched and grateful… and feel so guilty when I can’t respond right away, and when days slip by. In addition to having the privilege of working with chocolate and sugar on a regular basis, hearing from others (from all over the world!) is my favorite part of having my own business.

And this week was a banner week for that. Here are three takes on my products that talk about them in ways that I never would have imagined…

First, Kevin Vigneault, he of Candy Bar Lab, posted niftily about Learning Product Development from a Candy Maker.

Then, Alice Q .Foodie posted about enjoying my candy bars for her birthday. I always hold my breath a little bit when I start to read a post about my bars, but when it’s for someone’s birthday, I’m more like a deer in headlights than a person looking at a computer screen. But phew…. Alice liked them quite well!

My lungs barely had a chance to recover before I read Ruth Reichl’s write-up on Gourmet’s Weekly Newsletter. One of my beliefs for the company is that everyone is a VIP and wonderful for even considering my confections, but when an author, former New York Times (and LA Times!) restaurant reviewer, and current Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet Magazine raves about your passion fruit marshmallows, it’s hard not to get a little bit more flustered than usual. It doesn’t seem like Gourmet posts its newsletter on its site so I can’t link to it, so here’s a copy of the writeup by Ruth:

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 11:34 pm and is filed under BonBonBar LLC, Chocolate, Highly Recommended. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.