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See's Famous Old Time Candies

A Sweet Story By Margaret Moos Pick

7 x 7 in; 96 pp ; 75 color and B/W images
Hardcover
Published in December, 2005
ISBN 0811848671
ISBN13 9780811848671

$14.95  

See's Famous Old Time Candies -- More fun than the episode of I Love Lucy set on the candy line and with stories richer than a Dark Chocolate Truffle, See's Famous Old Time Candies is a golden ticket to the candy factory (and, yes, See's did inspire that Lucy episode). Author Margaret Moos Pick chronicles See's history, from its humble beginning in Mary See's kitchen back in the 1890s to its place of reverence in the hearts of the sweet-toothed everywhere. Learn how See's candy experts hold chocolate tastings, treating batches like fine wines, to choose the very best; how bonbons are still meticulously hand-dipped to perfection; and how those at See's simmered, stirred, cooked, and tasted 250 recipes—all to create the perfect truffle. For See's fans and proud candy lovers, here's a story with a very sweet center.

Margaret Moos Pick is the executive producer and head writer for the Riverwalk Jazz radio series on Public Radio International, and was a founding producer of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. She has previously collaborated with National Public Radio host Terry Gross on All I Did Was Ask. She lives in Petaluma, California.