Candyfreak : A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Hardcover)

from varielle

How writer Steve Almond has stayed trim and avoided becoming a diabetic is a complete mystery. He's been living on a steady diet of candy since childhood. This is his candy eating memoir and an exploration of the history and business of candy making in America. This book caused me to mail order a...

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 annief

Characters: The stars of this book are the Twin Bing, the Idaho Spud, the Goo Goo cluster, the Valomilk, the Kit Kat Dark, the Caravelle bar, the Abba Zabba, the Peanut Chew, the Haviland Thin Mint, Chocolites, Ooompahs, Marathons, etc. Plot : When I read the first paragraph of the Prologue of th...

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 Alliebadger

If you liked Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me, you'll love to devour this one. Steve Almond goes behind the scenes of candy-making: who the big firms are and what they're REALLY like. He also makes you pine for the days where monopolists didn't run the candy market by exploring smaller firms. He...