Chocolate Chat

A place for stories, information and discussions about chocolate and life at a candy store; written and edited by members of the family at Anderson's Candy Shop.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Groundhog Day

›

EDITOR'S NOTE: This week, fans of Bill Murray and Harold Ramis' 1993 romantic comedy 'Groundhog Day' celebrated 20 years sin...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Foiling a credit card scam, chocolate, and Vietnam

›

EDITOR'S NOTE: Typically, my father Leif is in the newspaper for one of two reasons - our chocolate has been awarded; or, as a local bus...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

A bittersweet Christmas story

›

EDITOR'S NOTE: From time to time we hand deliver chocolate for our customers. Dad recently rushed from his busy schedule at the cooking...

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Understanding the real magic

›

EDITORS NOTE: Today's entry is from my sister Susanne Anderson (pictured at right). She writes about transitioning into a fulltime role ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A cute, sneaky, customer story

›

Editor's note: Here at the candy store in Richmond, Illinois we get hundreds of emails, phone calls and letters each year from costumers...

Friday, November 11, 2011

Resisting temptation

›

When people find out that I am part of a family that has been making chocolate candies for four generations, they always ask some version of...

2 comments:

Thursday, October 20, 2011

A happy (delicious) accident

›

Welcome back to a special edition of Chocolate Chat. Today's entry is from third-generation candy maker (my Dad) Leif Anderson. He share...

1 comment:

‹

›

Home

View web version

About Anderson's

Anderson's Candy Shop: is an old fashioned candy store located on the Illinois-Wisconsin border northwest of Chicago, Illinois. The store was opened just after World War I and today, a fourth generation of Anderson family members own and operates the shop. Anderson's uses 100 plus year old recipes to create its award-winning, gourmet quality candies.

View my complete profile