Southwestern friends Dennis and Cindy recently stopped in bearing gifts from their home in Southern Arizona. As you can see, they know me all too well, specifically my love for colorfully packaged global candy with catchy names and spicy/sweet/salty flavors. I've got plenty of candy homework ahead. /mark See the full gallery on Posterous
We're prepping for next week's GastroLab video shoot, in which we'll put together a rather absurd Valentine's Day meal. Today we got the five pound bag of candy hearts we ordered. Can you guess what we plan to do with them? (If you haven't seen some of our past GastroLab videos for Slate, check them out here.) See the full gallery
Hey, the pumpkin episode isn't the only thing we're doing for Halloween. On Thursday, we're also talking candy in our latest appearance on The Madeleine Brand Show, a fine new program from Southern California Public Radio. (If you missed it our interview, you can listen to the segment here.) The show runs from 9a-10a Pacific on 89.3, 89.1, or 90.3 FM,