Tag Archive for 'chocolate'

Butter’s Fine Food & Wine – Concord

(603) 225-5995

70 North Main Street, Concord NH 03301

www.buttersfinefood.com

Hours:
Mon-Weds & Sat – 9am – 6pm
Thurs & Fri – 9am – 7pm
Sun – 11am – 5pm

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Granite State Candy Shoppe – Concord

(603) 225-2591

13 Warren Street, Concord, NH 03301

www.nhchocolates.com

Granite State Candy Shoppe features wonderful chocolates and candies made right on the premises. The old-fashioned peanut brittle is a favorite of Roger, who loves all things peanut. And not to be missed is their homemade ice cream—available in season from spring through late summer. The portions are tremendous—at a tremendous value—and the quality is hard to beat anywhere. Andrea favors their pistachio, while Roger is a recent convert to coconut snowflake (coconut icecream with dark chocolate chips).

Regular Store Hours
Sunday: 12-5:00pm… Continue reading

Bread & Chocolate Seduction

Okay, so the truth is this: the way to a woman’s heart is through chocolate… or it is poppy seeds?

A few years back, Roger and I were working on a shared project through Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. I was the writer and he was the designer for their employee newsletter. We’d grown fond of each other and become good friends over a period of time.

He was commuting from Hillsboro up to Lebanon a few days per week, and somehow he found time to get to South Main Street in Concord to pick up several slices of Bread… Continue reading

Winnipesaukee Chocolates

A recent visit to Concord found us in Butters.. once again. Funny how often that happens.

Anyway, we chose to stop of our own volition reading in the weekly electronic newsletter that there was to be a chocolate tasting. Mmmmm.

Winnipesaukee ChocolatesA very pleasant couple, Sally Cornwell and Jonathan Walpole, together run Winnipesaukee Chocolates in Wolfboro. I was thrilled to talk with them, as I spent several weeks every summer for thirty-five years up the road in Tuftonboro. During my childhood we’d drive “into… Continue reading