While visiting Tokushima, Japan, for the 2016 Japan Writers’ Conference, I made several new friends–some of whom invited me to visit a traditional sweet shop during one of our breaks from conference sessions.
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“See”ing Chocolate
As a child, I loved See’s Candy. (Full disclosure: I still do.) See’s is a California chocolate company, founded in 1921, with shops throughout the Western United States. To this day, if you enter a shop, they’ll give you a free piece of candy – a fact I adored as a candy-loving child. The adult version of me likes it, too. (I recently bought some of their foil-covered chocolate balls for my son and his roommates as a Halloween treat.) The distinctive white box, with its delightful chocolate smell, brings back memories of standing in my parents’ kitchen, tiptoeing to
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