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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 14, 2000
Click here to download
a copy of the Massachusetts Gourmet Guide (Adobe
Acrobat Reader required.)
Consider Massachusetts-made candies for your
Valentine this year, suggests the Massachusetts Department of Food and
Agriculture. Bay State candy makers and other specialty food producers
offer elegantly packaged gifts for the special day and many sell their
products through mail order, perfect for long-distance romances.
Options with local flavor include handmade
fudge featuring Belgian and French chocolate, English Toffee made with
the freshest and finest ingredients, the best not-too-sweet peanut brittle,
beautifully designed and wrapped handmade chocolates, lollipops, stick
candy and wrapped hard candy, and combinations of chocolate and sweetened
dried cranberries.
The Massachusetts Gourmet Guide,
published by the Department of Food and Agriculture, includes a dozen
Bay State companies that offer sweet treats via mail order. Also available
is the Massachusetts Specialty Products Directory which
includes over 30 in-state retail candy makers. For a copy of either publication,
call 1-877-MASSGROWN or visit www.massgrown.org
on the Web.
The Massachusetts Specialty Foods Association
offers a selection of seven gift baskets brimming with unique locally-made
candy and other specialty foods. For information call 1-800-813-5862.
The marriage of cranberries and chocolate produces
a distinctively New England way to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day,
according to Susan Faria of Cape Cod Provisions, Barnstable. Among
such confections are the company’s Cranberry Bog Frogs©: caramel-covered
sweetened dried cranberries combined with roasted cashews and robed in
milk chocolate.
At Harbor Sweets, fine chocolates using no
preservatives or artificial ingredients are all handmade at the candy
factory in Salem. Their mail-order Valentine’s Day catalog
offers traditional and sugar-free Valentine heart assortments as well
as other specially designed shapes. Take your Valentine on a date to the
Harbor Sweets retail shop which overlooks the production area where visitors
can watch chocolates being molded and packaged!
For the past eight years, A Berkshire Confection
of Alford, has been making Fiddlehead Fern Chocolatier brand truffles
using Belgium and French chocolate. The result is a smooth, creamy gourmet
delight. Owner Catherine Sullivan says customers always comment on the
innovative elegant packaging.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Diane Baedeker Petit, 617-626-1752
PROGRAM CONTACT: Bonita Oehlke, 617-626-1753
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