Harvest Book: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Other)

from ConnieJo

I was totally taken off guard with how funny this book was. I went to read the introduction one day and found myself 30 pages into the book in no time at all. What I expected to be a somewhat dry documentary of the history of candy turned out to be a hilarious personal account of a lifetime spent...

from indygo88

This was a fun, lighthearted read written by a guy who is, yes, a candy freak. He grew up being obsessed with candy & apparently still is today. In it, he talks a little about his own history, as well as some history about candy in general in America, focusing more on the smaller, lesser-known ca...

from Juva

Explore the small and shrinking private candy concerns of America. The author, a self-identified "candy freak" is on a cross-country search for the hidden world of small-time candy manufacturers. His lively narration carries the reader through a number of factory tours and debates about the finer...

from electrascaife

Almond reports on his quest to tour small business candy factories and interview their owners while at the same time chronicling his own life-long obsession with candy. So it's part microhistory and part autobiography, as he narrates his childhood love of chocolate bars, his struggles with depres...

from dvf1976

I read this book while I drove with Erin and my in-laws to Memphis. It was a pretty fun book. I tried eating some candy while reading but it gave me a stomach-ache. Things I liked from this book: * the term 'Radioactive Cute' * The fascination the author had with the candy manufacturers Things th...