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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Fard Cardamom Sugar Plum
While preparing for Thanksgiving I went to a grocery store near my home that I'd never visited. It's called Golden Farms and it's in Glendale which has a huge Armenian population (the third largest community in the world outside of Armenia). Golden Farms caters directly to this group, which makes up more than 25% of the population of the area. They have all sorts of fun things that I enjoy like dried fruits, nuts, interesting produce, fruit preserves and of course candy.
The candy that caught my eye, that I couldn't wait until my next visit to purchase, was this Fard Cardamom Sugar Plum. I've already tried Fard's Persian Nougat, which I liked quite a bit, so I felt confident about the brand even though the packaging is pretty plain. Fard's website also calls this candy Abnabat and it comes in Lemon and Ginger varieties as well.
The ingredients are simple: sugar, citric acid and cardamom. Most hard candies also use corn syrup, which is pure glucose while sugar is sucrose. Pure sucrose candies tend to be sweeter, as glucose does not have the same mouth feel or sweetness level as sucrose.
The pieces are beautiful. They're obviously hand formed, just scored and broken into little domed nuggets. They look like amber with little seeds trapped inside.
After opening the package, I was certain I made the right choice to buy it - it smells just like cardamom pods freshly crushed in a mortal and pestle. I'm a huge fan of cardamom and loved seeing the little seeds in the candy, I put it in a lot of things like chocolate pudding, bread pudding, jam and plain rice. It's especially good for candy and I've always wanted a candy that was just cardamom flavored.
The pieces fit in the mouth well, though the irregular edges were tempting to nibble on to take off the sharpness. The dissolve is smooth and slow with a pleasant pure sugar flavor that's just lightly toasted, kind of like Barley Sugar. There were no voids, just dense sugar and the seeds. The cardamom flavor is loud and impressive - it's a nice mix of earthy root notes, eucalyptus and pine resin. The intensity of the flavor varied, depending on how much cardamom was in an actual piece. A few had no seeds, though still plenty of flavor. Others were just chocked full. I'm a cruncher, so candies that had a lot were a little harder for me to eat, because I wanted some cardamom and didn't mind eating a few seeds. The seeds have a much stronger flavor and can be a little bit slippery. With pieces with a lot of seeds I usually ended up fishing the seeds out of my mouth as the candy dissolved.
The candy is refreshing and is probably great with tea or after a meal. I tended to eat it as a treat while working or just watching TV. This is something that I will probably buy again, especially if I'm going to be traveling and I imagine it will be great for my tummy on boats (cardamom is related to ginger). It's a little rustic and of course not individually wrapped, so not appropriate for all situations.
It's marked Kosher (Pareve) so it may also qualify as vegan, but email the company to be sure.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:56 pm All Natural • Candy • Fard • Hard Candy & Lollipops • Kosher • 8-Tasty • United States • Comments (5)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Wonka Exceptionals Peppermint Shortbread Chocolate Pieces
The Wonka Exceptionals Line is brand new this year, so it's a bit surprising that Nestle already has a holiday version of one of their sub-brands when it seems like it took them decades to make holiday Gobstoppers.
The line of upscale Wonka Exceptionals includes new chocolate pieces. They're little rectangles that are individually wrapped and feature a little bit of a different take on the standard morsel. The first introductions were Scrumdiddlyumptious (cookie pieces in milk chocolate), Chocolate Waterfall (milk & white chocolate swirled) and Domed Dark Chocolate (milk & dark stack) In addition, Wonka came up with Marvels and Fruit Jellies with all natural colors and flavors.
The holiday Wonka Exceptionals Peppermint Shortbread Chocolate Pieces come in a tall box like the Jellies and Marvels. (The previous Pieces I reviewed came in a purple hologram emblazoned bag.) Inside the slim box is a purple mylar pouch with the Wonka Ws all over it. The box only holds four ounces of the foil wrapped chocolates and at nearly $4 for the package, that's a dollar an ounce. That's about what I pay for See's by the pound. (There are approximately 12 pieces in the box.)
So, Wonka is trucking along, reinventing the brand. They're going for quality and recapturing the imagination that everyone loves so much in the Dahl books ... and then this Christmas candy comes along. The previous candies in this Exceptionals line have been good, a little expensive but they also have a unique selling position - they're made with all natural flavors and colors. So I bite into one of these new milk chocolate pieces that have peppermint candy pieces and shortbread cookie morsels.
There are red bits in there. They're bright red. They're kind of minty but they're also kind of bitter to me towards the end, there's something slightly off about them. They have artificial colors in them. Why? They're inside! Why would you put coloring in something that's not even meant to be seen?
That aside, the milk chocolate pieces are creamy. They're very sweet and don't have a huge cocoa punch, it's quite mild and overshadowed by the mint and a bit of the milky flavors. The candy pieces are crunchy and then there are little bits of shortbread sometimes - they're a kind of sandy and crumbly cookie crunch that has a light salty note to it. But they're really sandy sometimes, like cornmeal sandy.
The whole thing wasn't working for me. It was too sweet and though most of the texture components were right (except for the lingering sand, like that stuff in your jeans pockets after going through the wash). I was irritated that I paid $4 for a box of candy I didn't want to eat. They've already shown that they can do better, so I want Wonka to do better next time around.
I got a handful of these as a sample from Nestle at first, but I didn't get the box or label with it, so that's why I went out and bought them, so I could find out how expensive they were for myself and see that there Red #3, Red #40 and Blue #1 in there. Bah, humbug.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Candy Cane Tootsie Pop Drops
A couple of years ago Tootsie brought back their classic Tootsie Pop Drops. The package heralds them as Tootsie Pops without the stick! but they're actually a mini version of a hard candy with a little filling of chewy, chocolatey Tootsie Rolls.
It only makes sense that they'd do seasonal versions, such as the Candy Cane Tootsie Pop in this smaller, sharable format. I believe these hit the shelves last year, but I didn't find them until this year.
The 3.5 ounce box holds a thick foil/plastic pouch with the candies inside. I'm never keen on this "bag inside a box" package, but I do admit that all of the candies came out looking great, no chips or broken ones and it wasn't just a bag of sugar dust.
I loved the look of them when I dumped them out of the bag. They're thick and feel heavy and solid, like pieces of glass. The color of the candy is a very light and milky pink with red stripes. They're smaller than a Starlight Mint but I find the size and shape excellent in the mouth.
The hard candy is smooth and has very few voids. The dissolve is good with a good mint flavor that has a few pops and sparkles of extra flavor on occasion. At the center is a small piece of a Tootsie Roll. I found the ratio to be a bit off, I'd like more Tootsie Roll, but still the chew of it is good. The flavor of the Tootsie Roll itself is always a bit disappointing, mostly because the chocolate flavor is often a bit musty and watery instead of woodsy and cocoa-ish. In this case there's a hint of rum and less of the cardboard taste, probably because of the essence of Peppermint at play here.
There's only the one flavor in the package, just like the old days when I would buy a roll of just Orange or Grape Tootsie Pop Drops. It would be fun to see these wrapped individually in wax paper and sold in rolls at least for the nostalgia value at Christmas. But the addition of seasonal flavors is a great touch that I hope Tootsie continues.
The new packaging advises that the Tootsie facility that made these is peanut free, gluten free, egg free and tree nut free. (It does contain milk ingredients and soy.)
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 4:26 pm Candy • Christmas • Tootsie • Chews • Hard Candy & Lollipops • Kosher • Mints • 7-Worth It • United States • Walgreen's • Comments (6)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Coronado Paleta de Cajeta
My mother and I went downtown to a candy store called Jack's Wholesale Candy & Toy before Halloween to pick up candy for the kids. They had an excellent selection of Mexican candies, including many tamarind and chili candies. But I was more interested in the cajeta and dulce de leche candies. They had lots to choose from, mostly in the form of little patties but also a few hard candies and lollipops. Since it was Halloween, we picked up this pound plus bag of Coronado Paletas de Cajeta to give out.
Cajeta is a Mexican specialty usually made with goat's milk (leche de cabra). It's slowly simmered with sugar until it forms a syrup so thick that a spoon stands straight up in it. It's usually served as a spread or filling for other baked goods but sometimes boiled a little longer to create a more solid fudge-like candy. But there are are also other candies that use the caramel-like goo as a base. In the case of these lollipops, the caramel base was used to make a hard toffee type lollipop. Each was nicely mounted on a plastic stick and sealed to keep them fresh. I was attracted to the package mostly because the Coronado logo features a nanny goat picture.
Goat's milk has both a different flavor profile and a slightly different nutritional one from cow's milk. As someone who is quickly developing a lactose intolerance problem, I've been shifting over to goat's milk products and finding them tasty, nutritious and more digestible.
I really didn't think these were going to be very good, somewhere in the realm of the mediocre Tootsie Caramel Pops. They were far superior.
First, there are few ingredients: goat's milk, sugar, corn syrup, sodium bicarbonate & potassium sorbate. The fact that the milk came before the sugar was encouraging.
The look of the candies was great. The mylar wrappers were a pretty mix of brown and maroon and well sealed to protect the pops (and give confidence to parents for Halloween hauls). The candy on the stick looked pretty much pristine. None that I had were chipped or broken or poorly formed. They're about the size of Chupa Chups, or smaller than a Tootsie Pop but larger than a Dum Dum.
The flavor is smooth and creamy. I didn't have a single void in the half dozen I've eaten so far (there were 40 pops in the bag and my mother didn't get a lot of trick-or-treaters). The flavor is subtle, it's not gamey or too tangy like some goat's milk can be, but it's definitely not the cow's milk profile either. The caramel notes are true but without any bitterness that some toffee can have. It's a very subdued sweetness.
They were quite dense and lasted a long time. Of course I like to crunch and eventually I would chip away at them with my canines. They're actually quite crunchy without sticking to my teeth.
If you're a fan of Werther's Originals, these are very similar though less sweet and a little less oily.
The package didn't say anything about nuts or gluten. It did say that there's 23% of your calcium in every lollipop, but I think that's some sort of math error. I'm definitely going to explore the Coronado brand more fully in the future.
Sera from The Candy Enthusiast tried a slightly different version of these.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:57 pm All Natural • Candy • Caramel • Hard Candy & Lollipops • Toffee • 8-Tasty • Mexico • Comments (0)
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Honees Honey Filled Drops
Sometimes candy can be therapeutic. Honey is supposed to have cough suppressing qualities. Honey candies are a great, compact and less-sticky way to serve up honey.
I've picked up these Honees made by Ambrosolio Candies of Italy a couple of times in the past year. The first time I found them at Mel & Rose Wine & Liquors, which they were $1.25 ... not bad as far as I was concerned. But then I went to downtown Los Angeles last weekend to a place called Jack's Wholesale Candy & Toy (photos) and found a box of $24 for only $12.99 ... that's about 54 cents a package. I bought the whole box (and they said that when their current inventory was gone, the price was going up to $14). They were far cheaper than the lovely French Boules de Miel I got last year at a gourmet store.
The candies are simple. It's a honey flavored hard candy with a gooey honey center. They come in this simple foil package of nine candies. Each rectangular rod is about one inch long with rounded sides. It fits in the mouth easily, it's about the same mass as a Starlight Mint (5 grams).
They're sweet but not cloying or throat searing, it's more soothing. The honey notes are a little malty, soapy and floral and sometimes I get a little whiff of lemon or eucalyptus. I found that sometimes I could let the candy dissolve and reach the honey center but most of the time I bit them and sucked out the honey or chewed them up.
They're all natural and only have three ingredients: sugar, corn syrup and honey. (But the honey keeps them from being vegan.)
They're less like cough drops and more like candy. I can't say that they calmed my cough that much (but it's just allergies at the moment, not a cold). They also come in a menthol version and a milk & honey version.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:43 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Hard Candy & Lollipops • 8-Tasty • Italy • Comments (3)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tootsie Caramel Apple Pops
About 15 years ago Tootsie introduced a new lollipop. Like many of Tootsie popular lollipops it was a combination of two already famous candies. In this case the Tootsie Caramel Apple Pops combined a hard candy with caramel. It was a base of green apple flavored hard candy covered with a hard caramel (think Sugar Daddy).
Since they candy is meant to mimic a caramel covered apple, it only makes sense that other varieties of apples get their day in the sun. Last year Tootsie introduced their Assorted Apple Orchard Caramel Apple Pops. The bag has a variety: Green Apple, Golden Delicious and Red Macintosh.
I admit that I've had these before, well, I've had Green Apple pops in my possession before. I used to do product photography, so I'd get large quantities of candy to take pictures of and then I'd get to keep it. I had huge box of these and never actually ate one myself. They're messy, the packaging doesn't really highlight them well either. Worse, I saw them being made on TV (I think it was Unwrapped, but can't find a mention of it on the Food Network website) and they look radically different when purchased than when they roll off the production line.
They're puckered and irregular and often little bits of caramel poke out of the bottom of the wrapper. But I actually like Sugar Daddy and regular Tootsie Pops, so I should give these a fair shake.
The pops start with a hard candy disk, in this case flavored like green apple. Then the pop gets a coating of hard caramel and then a wrapper. During shipping and storage there's some sort of glaciation that takes place and the pop flattens and takes on the shape of the wrapper. The hard candy gets marbled with the caramel.
The hard caramel is smooth and sweet with a light toasted sugar flavor with a hint of milk. The green apple candy is slick, without the painfully sharp edged voids of Tootsie Pops and Blow Pops. They're not as intensely flavored as Jolly Ranchers, just a tart apple flavor. They're comforting and mellow.
My main complaint is the width of the pop, it's a little too wide for my mouth. The edges tend to be irregular, kind of rippled from the wrapper, this is uncomfortable when sucking on the pops after a while. The whole pop will eventually be soft and pliable and of course stick to the roof of my mouth if I'm not careful (I'm sure those impressions are like fingerprints).
The Golden Delicious variety comes in a mustard yellow wrapper. In the real fruit world, golden delicious are not on my list of favorite apples - I find them too sweet and often mealy. In the case of the candy version of the golden delicious, neither of those qualities was an issue. The scent of this pop was actually very apple like, it reminded me of peeling apples.
The apple flavor is muted and sweet and doesn't quite stand up to the caramel as well. It's almost like applesauce or apple pie a la mode (with caramel sauce).
I was glad that Tootsie didn't go with red delicious on this one, instead it's Red Macintosh which is a much more flavorful apple. The pop in this case is kind of in the middle of the flavor profile gamut - it's not as intense or fake tasting as the Green Apple, but a little bolder than the Golden Delicious. The flavor of the red candy part was like an apple cider - notes of the apple peel and juice but still on the sweet side.
Getting over the messy look of these is a bit difficult, but the candy inside definitely has merits. I don't see buying them for myself again but I love the idea and think that Tootsie did a great job of making the flavors distinctive enough. The pops are only 60 calories. The combination of textures and flavors makes these a good treat for those watching their calories.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:22 pm Candy • Review • Halloween • Tootsie • Caramel • Hard Candy & Lollipops • 6-Tempting • United States • Rite Aid • Comments (19)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Baskin-Robbins Hard Candy - Pralines 'n Cream
Since starting Candy Blog my consumption of ice cream has decreased to nearly nothing. Two reasons: I simply can't afford the calories given my candy habits and as I get older I'm less and less lactose tolerant (which really takes the enjoyment out of it). That doesn't mean that I don't miss it. One of the things I miss is the texture; the other is the flavor combinations. Mint chocolate chip just doesn't work in the same way in any other format than ice cream.
Baskin-Robbins has a line of ice cream themed candies. I tried the chewy candies a few years ago and decided that they were not for me. But I did see these hard candies at the 99 Cent Only Store. Baskin-Robbins Smooth & Creamy Hard Candy. I decided to try the Pralines 'n Cream because it sounded like a flavor that could be made into a hard candy well. The ingredients looked pretty good too: sugar, corn syrup, sweetened condensed milk, salt, natural & artificial flavors, soy lecithin, honey and soybean oil.
The candies are individually wrapped and well marked (in case you buy several varieties and want to mix them in a bowl). Each piece was a combination of two colors, a light milky caramel color and a darker toffee color. They smell sweet, toasty and rather like walking into an actual Baskin-Robbins.
The texture isn't quite silky smooth, but they're still quite slick. I prefer to crunch mine and these have a nice cleave to them (though some could also be tough and chewy - that could be that I left them in my car and it got a little hot). The flavor has a good blend of caramelized sugar notes, butterscotch pudding and a liberal dose of salt. They're quite sweet, but so is Pralines 'n Cream Ice Cream. I ate most of the bag in one sitting, so after three or four it got a bit throat searing - that's a lot of sugar.
I was pretty pleased with these. They're a little different from something like a Werther's, more milky. The price was pretty good, too. I know the bag only had 3.5 ounces for a dollar, but that's a decent deal for a very dairy laden candy. I don't know why the package says "Value Size", as I don't know what other package sizes and price points are available. Usually value sizes are large ... I considered this two servings. (Though the package seems to think three is a serving.)
Each piece has 20 calories. They're not really low calorie candies, just small. At 121 calories per ounce, there's a fair amount of fat in there for a sugar candy, about 2 grams per ounce.
The hard candies also come in Very Berry Strawberry and Mint Chocolate Chip. I have my doubts about the success of those flavors in this format, so I'll probably just quite while I'm ahead.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 11:37 am Candy • Review • Hard Candy & Lollipops • Kosher • 7-Worth It • United States • 99 Cent Only Store • Comments (3)
Friday, August 27, 2010
Cedrinca Gran Mix
While in Illinois last month I visited Caputo's Market, which boasts a huge selection of candies from all over the world. I tried some Polish candies and also picked up a few mixes of Italian candies from Cedrinca. I'm familiar with the brand as I've tasted a few of their mints and fruit candies at Italian restraurants when a handful is usually presented with the bill at the end of the meal. (Usually an Eastern US thing, on the West Coast they just have a bowl by the door.)
Caputo's had a great selection of Cedrinca but I opted for a mix so I could get to know more of their items. This version is called Gran Mix and says Caramelle ripiene assortite which I took to mean assorted filled candies. And that turned out to be exactly what these are!
Cedrinca boasts that these are all natural candies, no artificial colors, flavors, additives or preservatives. Each candy was also individually wrapped and most were labeled to show what was inside.
The majority of the mix was a mix of little rod shaped candies. Most were marked on the wrapper what they were.
The first notable one was Menta Ripeno Al Cacao which were a light mint hard candy filled with a chocolate paste. I've had a lot of experience with those disappointing starlight mints with the chocolate (why would you finish an excellent meal with a piece of candy like that?) and this was nothing like that. The chocolate filling was a like a fantastic chocolate buttercream. It tasted fresh and creamy and like real cocoa.
Mandorlatte looked the same but was crunchy delight with almonds and milk. It was fascinating, like vanilla pudding distilled into a hard candy. The crunch was almost like the center of a Butterfinger bar, the flavor was sweet and milky but with a hint of lemon and almond. Some had a slightly soft creamy reservoir, others were just the crispy stuff. Either way, I loved them. Fascinating and like nothing else, so of course I pulled those out of the mix to save for later.
The colorful metallic wrappers with the gold swirls on them were fruity, Bonbon Fourre. The outside was softer than the other candies, it was a hard candy but still a little bit on the mushy side. Crunchy into them to get to the jam center was easy. Savored in layers, it was okay, but I preferred to chew the whole thing up to mix the stiff chew of the candy outside with the tart fruity goo inside. They were supposed to be different flavors, but I never really noticed much of a difference. They were all perfectly pleasant but not intense or distinct.
I don't know what fruit they were supposed to be. These weren't labeled, just color coded.
Caramella (peach wrapper) - a light, rather white large filled hard candy. It looked like the one above, but completely uncolored. The hard candy shell was lightly tart and vaguely fruity. The gooey jam filling was nondescript. It wasn't citrus, perhaps it was peach. Tangy, very sweet but not very flavorful. I got another one that was in a purple wrapper that was also simply marked Caramella. It looked just the same (no artificial colors here, in fact, I don't think they used any colorings on the candies themselves). The filling was a light yellow color and reminded me of red currant.
Espresso this was the variety of this format that I got the most of. The candy shell was the darkest of the three though it didn't smell like anything at all.
Inside the candy was a thick coffee tar. It was a lightly grainy paste that tasted just like the sludge at the bottom of a coffee pot left on the warmer over the weekend. Yes, it was bitter and a little sweet, but also a bit burnt like charcoal. It was a curious candy, because it didn't really please me, yet I kept eating them.
Cappuccino - the candy shell was crisper and had an excellent crunch. The candy shells was lightly coffee flavored, but mostly sweet. The filling was very interesting, it was a frothy sweet, slightly salty cream with little shards of bitter coffee hard candy. The combination of textures is fun and the light coffee flavor did give me the impression of a cappuccino with lots of sugar in it.
I'm a huge fan of assortments like this. It's a great way to sample the whole line of products and narrow in on what you like before taking the leap of a full bag. The price is a little steep for sugar candy, but the fact that they're all natural and that many were unique help to offset that. It's a low-risk/medium-reward purchase. I think if I were to buy them again, I'd focus in on the Mandorlatte and Cappuccino. (Both were available at Caputo's as single flavor packages.) I picked up a chocolate variety too, called Puccini that I'm still working my way through.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:26 pm All Natural • Candy • Coffee • Hard Candy & Lollipops • Mints • Nuts • 7-Worth It • Italy • Comments (5)
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Kathleen (Little) Nelson, 92, passed away on Friday, November 23, 2012 at Millcroft in Newark, DE.
Born April 7, 1920 in Newark, she was the daughter of the late T. Harold and Emilie (Wilson) Little and was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Leonard Nelson.
She graduated from Newark High School in 1938 and attended the University of Delaware, majoring in elementary education. Kathleen was devoted to her family, church and the teaching of children. She was a 75-year member of Ebenezer United Methodist Church of Newark. Through the years at the church she was involved in teaching, singing in the church choir, playing the organ from ages 14 to 21, and participating in a variety of other church-related activities and committees.
Under the influence of her aunt, Lora H. Little, Kathleen became a dedicated teacher and loved teaching school. She taught in the Stanton Elementary School for 6 years and then developed, taught and became director of the Ebenezer United Methodist Church Preschool from 1966 to 2002. She retired and was honored at the age of 82, after 36 years of service.
Kathleen was well-loved by her family. Surviving are her children, Ronald and his wife, Carole, of Georgetown, NY; Dennis and his wife, Diana, of Millsboro, DE; Lois Clark and her husband, Jim, of Mechanicsburg, PA; Donna Samuels and her husband, Tom, of West Grove, PA; a sister, Dorothy Godwin, of Wilmington, DE; 9 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild.
Visitation will be held on Friday, November 30 from 6 to 8 pm at the Doherty Funeral Home, 3200 Limestone Road, Wilmington, DE and at the Ebenezer Church from 10 to 11 am, prior to the funeral service. The funeral service will be held Saturday, December 1, at 11 am at the Ebenezer United Methodist Church, 525 Polly Drummond Hill Road, Newark, DE with a light luncheon following at the church. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Ebenezer United Methodist Church Preschool, 525 Polly Drummond Hill Road, Newark, DE 19711.
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Joanna L. Krotz writes about small-business marketing and management issues. She is the co-author of the "Microsoft Small Business Kit" and runs Muse2Muse Productions, a New York City-based custom publisher.
Using a mentor should be on your front burner as a business strategy, because a smart mentor can make all the difference in building your business. By tapping the expertise of someone who's already jumped the hurdles, you can cut to the chase much more efficiently.
Mentoring is defined by an agreement between a protégé and a business guru in your community or industry. Both sides understand that the purpose is to advance the protégé's interests and goals. Mentoring isn't a gripe session or a flurry of phone calls. It's a formal process, with regular meetings and a system for reviewing progress and performance.
The premise of such relationships is that the mentor has been there and done all that. In theory, the mentor is a business veteran who knows, viscerally, what it feels like to walk in your shoes. You, as protégé, agree to heed the advice and to work at change, typically not an easy task. If you're unwilling to implement the advice, then you're wasting your mentor's time and should move on.
So what's the catch for women owners about finding the right mentor?
The sexes do not experience the business world in the same ways, whether as client or supplier, manager or marketer. What's more, we're now experiencing the first generation or so of widespread success for women-owned businesses. That means the been-there/done-that part of the mentor equation isn't as deep or wide for women as it is for men. That holds true for mentors and entrepreneurs alike.
As a result, women choose mentors differently, and for different reasons, than men do. Let me elaborate on how and why, as well as offer tips for using mentors.
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"Men teach you to think and act like men and women teach you to think and act like women," says Linda Higgison, who in 1977 founded TCI Companies, a Washington, D.C., events and meeting business that now boasts $5 million in annual revenues. On the way up, says Higgison, now in her late 50s, all of her mentors were men. "By my late 40s, I said there's something wrong with this picture. I was conflicted."
Her disconnect came from an instinct to be intuitive, versus the distant, unemotional leadership style she had developed. After reevaluation and some peer-to-peer coaching with women, Higgison evolved a style that made her more comfortable. "My success has soared as a result of that," she says.
Does this mean only women should mentor women? Not for a nanosecond.
It does suggest, however, that women business owners may do well by enlisting several mentors, men and women, who can offer varying skills and tutoring. Or, consider a series of mentors, each for specific challenges, say, ramping up technology or honing financial skills.
This multiple-mentor approach has proven effective for high-achieving women. One recent study of male and female corporate presidents and vice presidents that compared career-building mentor relationships found that women averaged more numerous and longer mentor relationships than did men. All the women in the study, conducted by Susan Schor, a management professor at New York–based Pace University, had one to four mentors in their careers, while only half of the men had any at all. The men who did had only one or two.
In addition, women's relationships with mentors averaged five years. With men, it was only two.
What women gain from mentors
Clearly, women benefit from mentors. But the relationships do seem qualitatively different than the ones men forge. Here are eight tips on how to leverage this special relationship.
1. Seek out a good fit for a mentor. "Make sure the mentor's social style and values match your own as much as possible," says Sid Walker, a sales performance coach and author of Trust Your Gut. Like all partnerships, you need trust, chemistry and commitment.
2. Be subtle and less formal in your approach. Few successful experts take well to a direct request for mentoring. It's too much of an upfront commitment. "It is more appropriate to say, 'Would you be willing to join me for lunch or breakfast? I need some advice and I would love an opportunity to pick your brain,'" suggests Barbara Danforth, who directs a mentoring program for businesswomen for the YWCA of Greater Cleveland. Alternatively, you can ask a mutual friend or associate to introduce you to a potential mentor.
3. Establish some goals and expectations. Many protégés and mentors write down goals and expectations from the relationship. If that's too formal for you, at least discuss, beforehand, exactly what you expect and want to achieve.
4. Consider star power. A high-profile mentor may be able to open doors. In selecting one, think about how she or he might help your business. "If your mentor can speak about you glowingly with colleagues in your industry, you gain credibility," says Alissa Krinsky, who runs Media Success, a Chicago-based media training company.
5. Enlist a mentor to expand a mature business. Mentor relationships aren't only for newbies. They can be invaluable to even veteran owners for taking business to the next level. Evette White, for example, founded her Nashville, Tenn., marketing agency in 1983, when she was only 19. Twenty years later, the company was grossing $3 million a year. In recent years, White became a protégé in a yearlong mentoring program sponsored by The Committee of 200 (www.c200.org), a powerful organization of women business owners based in Chicago. "I was at the stage of considering partners and I needed to expand my resources," White says. "I had to deal with the emotion and pride of owning my own business for as long as I had. It was scary to change."
Evette White, working with two mentors who had specific skills she needed, got on "a fast track through the stages of partnership." Today, as chief executive with three male partners, one of whom was a former senior manager, White's company, White, Thompson, Cunningham and Regen, is billing $12 million, and she's ready for more challenges. Her advice: "You need to be responsible for connecting with the mentor, who has lots of other things to do. Take active ownership."
6. Don't forget to give back. Offer to help others when you can. "It's not a one-way relationship," says Liz Ryan, who operates AskLizRyan (www.asklizryan.com), a Web site addressing career, networking, and human resources issues.
7. Enjoy your ambition—and keep your perspective. "Most of my early mentors were men because there were so few women in the businesses I was involved in," says Alex Ramsey, who runs LoneStar Universal, an executive coaching service in Dallas. Later, after earning an MBA, Ramsey worked with a woman who was "brutally honest.' One thing she set me straight on was this: I had become extremely tense in my drive to succeed. She showed me how if I wasn't happy, then I made everything 10 times harder. The 'puritan ethic' had hijacked my mind. My intensity was creating pressure in other people." In other words, when working with a mentor, give it your full commitment but be true to yourself too.
8. Have an exit strategy. The key to successfully ending a mentoring relationship has several components, says Lois Zachary, author of The Mentor's Guide. First, you need to process and apply the lessons you've learned. Next, acknowledge and celebrate your success with the mentor. Last, discuss with the mentor about how the relationship will change, "whether it moves from professional to colleague, friends, or ceases to exist at all," Zachary says. That's when you know it's time for your next mentor.


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A single drawing of a woman's severed head all but destroyed the comic-book industry half a century ago. The ghastly image appeared on the cover of a 1954 crime comic, and when a U.S. senator held the offending periodical aloft during televised hearings that year, its publisher argued weakly that the artwork exhibited tasteful restraint. Sure, the ax used by the killer was blackened by gore. But a truly irresponsible outfit, he said, would have shown the open neck wound instead of hiding it from the viewer's gaze. The nation was unimpressed. Comic books were burned across the land and more than 100 state and local restrictions on their distribution became law. By 1956, more than half the industry's business had disappeared.
The "parent-baiting" comics targeted by the crackdown prefigured what would become the "defiant youth-oriented culture" of the next decade and beyond, said Janet Maslin in The New York Times. David Hajdu's "incisive and entertaining" account of their rise and fall doesn't defend the excesses of the crime and horror genres. He "positions the drive to clean up comics as a response to larger fears" about the future of a planet that soon enough would be handing its nuclear weapons over to a generation of juvenile delinquents. Hajdu has included more insider history "than most readers will want to follow," said Jennifer Reese in Entertainment Weekly. But his "smart, sobering" look at one "long-forgotten skirmish" highlights the black comedy of the culture wars we're still fighting today.
The Ten-Cent Plague delivers less than it promises, though, said Craig Seligman in Bloomberg.com. Despite its subtitle, "there's very little" analysis inside about how the war on comics "changed America." By all appearances, the America that imagined a link between comics and juvenile delinquency "was pretty much the same dumb, scared America before the bonfires and after." Hajdu also ducks the most "ticklish" questions raised by the story he tells, said Daniel Akst in The Boston Globe. "What, for example, is the proper response of society to junk culture aimed at kids?" Censorship is a dirty word, but there has to be some middle ground established between cultural witch hunts and "the screening of snuff films in nursery schools."
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By the light of day, America's biggest amusement parks entertain families in friendly, wholesome ways. As the sun sets, these same parks transform into spooky dens of phantasms and specters. Mazes and haunted houses fill darkened corners, while in many cases actors skulk and skitter through pathways, pouncing on unsuspecting guests. But then, that's what everyone is here for.
Looking for more haunted places to visit? See which creepy locations our panel of advisors chose for Travel's Best Halloween Attractions 2013. Prepare to be spooked!
Fright FestThis Jackson, NJ, theme park offers several new scares during this year's Six Flags Great Adventure: Fright Fest, including Shipwreck Cove -- where zombies have come ashore; Wasteland -- a mutant-filled forest; Voodoo Island -- a reality show gone the way of black magic and cannibalism; and Insanity: Gears of the Mind -- where doctors and devils want to experiment on you. Five new Monstertainment shows have also been added, and some of the park's biggest thrill rides remain open during Fright Fest, which runs select nights through Oct. 28.
Best scare: Circus of Thrills -- spin the Wheel of Destiny in this scary circus and see what frightening prizes await.
Six Flags Great Adventure
1 Six Flags Blvd, Jackson, NJ 08527
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Phone: (732) 928-2000
Halloween Horror NightsOne of the standards by which all other theme parks' Halloween transformations are measured, Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights is a true thrill-seeker's dream. The darkly humorous live shows, jarring street encounters and haunted houses themed around AMC's hit horror show The Walking Dead, shock rocker Alice Cooper's nightmares and the popular video game Silent Hill can be intense: The event is not recommended for kids under 13. Held on select nights throughout October, this hard-ticket event is now in its 22nd year.
Best scare: Penn & Teller Newkd Las Vegas, a new haunted experience based on the twisted humor of this comedy-magic duo.
Universal Studios Orlando
6000 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819
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Phone: (407) 363-8000
Howl-O-ScreamThis Tampa, FL, theme park's 335 acres are remade into a sinister playground where adult scares replace light, family fun. Among the new offerings in its 13th year, Busch Gardens Howl-O-Scream dares guests to experience the Blood Asylum, where a serial killer runs rampant, and the Circus of Superstition 3-D, where the daring must face 13 superstitions designed to impede their escape. Leave this one to the adults, who will experience violent scenes, blood and manufactured gore.
Best scare: Nevermore, a haunted house based on the classic works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Busch Gardens Tampa
10165 N Malcolm McKinley Dr, Tampa, FL 33612
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Phone: (888) 800-5447
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See for yourself:
Now, this oldest of tricks worked on us yokels up here in Wis-Cow-Sin.
Will it work on us Ron Paul early adapters?
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Step one: pick a wedge issue...
Submitted by Chris Chunderski on Sat, 06/29/2013 - 21:05. Permalink
Step one: pick a wedge issue. Any one will do, but the ones that allow you to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from school teachers are the best.
Step two: read, memorize, and burn your copy of How To Deny Anything, Anytime, Anywhere
Step three: always present your positions in groups of three. Three is calm, soothing, and familiar, like that Blue Man Group Waltz.
Pandacentricism will be our downfall.
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