I can crush through marzipan (and mandalhoernchen!) like nobody’s business!

Marzipan is truly the Crushed Nut Confection Of The Gods. Not those namby-pamby American marzipan candies that are all sugary and look like fruit, either. I’m talking seriously awesome European marzipan. Yes, maybe that makes me a marzipan elitist, but I don’t care. Sometimes it’s necessary to be an elitist when certain things are significantly [...]

Miner Decadence Chocolates (Idaho Springs Trip Part I)

Fall is an exciting time of year for those of us that happen to be lucky enough to live in an area where the leaves turn funny colors. We headed up to Idaho Springs, CO, not too long ago, where the half of the trees that are Aspens are all yellow and the half of [...]

Mary’s Mountain Cookies in Breckenridge, Co

For the last several days, about 1/2 of all of the food that I’ve eaten could easily be placed in the category of “dessert.” This is a combination of everyone who buys me presents knowing that I like chocolate and many people that I visit disliking having bunches of junk food around after a gathering, [...]

$2 Futomaki Rolls from the Seoul Oriental Grocery Market

So, I’m a bit poor right now. I can only blame this fact on that whole “not having a job” thing. Being poor comes in direct conflict with the fact that I really enjoy eating sushi as frequently as possible. And while sushi isn’t the most expensive thing out there, it’s not exactly the cheapest, [...]

Elke’s German Deli in Fountain, CO

Elke’s German Deli is magical. We were really just planning to have a look around when we first went in. We are greatly inspired by the selection of chocolate, but uninspired by the expected prices of products imported from Germany. But the salami reeled us in for a purchase, as salami always does. We decided [...]