http://teresagubbins.com Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:09:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's with cake? IE, why is "cake" a semi-popular ice cream flavor? Blue Bell is already heavily invested in cakey ice creams, yet here's one more, Cake Batter. what is the "flavor" of cake batter other than "sweet" and "fake"? this started out as a ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/03/12/blue-bell-cake-batter-ice-cream/ Remember when this blog used to be updated every day? and when it had original material? jeepers. big plans for this wk, tho (ice cream prods to share). but onto cupcakes, a trend that hasn't really hit dallas but maybe will w/ the March arrival of Sprinkles, a cupcake co. ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/02/18/sprinkles-cupcakes/ hell yeah it's a grind when you live in dallas and can't see driving all the way to frisco for a cup of joe. but if you live in frisco (and more & more people do), you'll welcome this new outlet of a small chain based in Long Beach CA, ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/02/05/its-a-grind/ in the thick of the asian-fest that is Walnut Street in Garland, Coco Fresh Vietnamese stands out: a streamlined spot whose unique mix of goodies embodies a multi-culti fusion: turkey sandwiches + banh mi, espresso + Vietnamese coffee, tapioca-pearl bevs + fruit smoothies (incl. durian & soursop flavors), and ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/02/02/coco-fresh-vietnamese/ Cocoa Via is hardly new. It's so not-new, it's not worth listing all the Web sites who've mentioned it. The basic premise - "chocolate that's good for you" - never appealed. what's the point of that? but it showed up at SuperT and was thus easy to buy. anyway, made ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/01/31/cocoa-via/ While most of the blah-blah re: the Glorious Makeover of NorthPark Center has centered on Barney’sBarney’sBarney’s, there's news that may interest those w/ a culinary bent. Namely, that HERE NOW* is the la-dee-da first-in-TX branch of The Original Soupman, the now-franchiseable chain launched by Seinfeld cameo-ite Al Yeganeh (w/ ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/01/24/original-soupmancrepe-maker-at-northpark/ before posting this, i conducted the usual investigation to see if it really was news (it's not) and/or what other stuff might be out there. during this exhaustive search, i discovered an A+ blog, Candy for Dinner, w/ an admirably hardcore focus on breaking candy news (much more diligently than ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/01/15/hersheys-with-corn-bits/ Already beloved here for its xlnt "Little Schoolboy" cookies (or as the frenchies would have it, Le Petit Ecolier), cookie maker Lu Biscuits appears to be undergoing some kind of renaissance w/ a whole wave of new prods. Here & now, a pair of sandwich cookies called Lu Cremes in ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/01/05/lu-cremes-choc-mint-ginger-lemon/ what a way to start '07: marc, the indian scout of NYCE, scrounged up what is perhaps the quintessential, the penultimate, the emblematic NYCE product: Hershey's ltd-ed coffee kisses. let us quantify (or is that qualify?): 1. limited edition + 2. coffee. these coffee kisses are the pinnacle in a ... http://teresagubbins.com/2007/01/02/hersheys-limited-edition-coffee-kisses/ Damn, hope Ghirardelli Limited Edition Peppermint Bark is still in stores, even tho it’s post-xmas. Otherwise that makes NYCE obsolete. so no, pepp bark is not brand new. but it's still surging in popularity (which makes it newsworthy) and this new ltd-ed (w/ its A+ shiny ribbon-candy wrapper) does a ... http://teresagubbins.com/2006/12/28/ghirardelli-limited-edition-peppermint-bark/