Right over here,” says Tom Hamsher, proudly gesturing at a metal cart filled with red and green-striped candy canes, “is what we made.” What they made hasn’t been seen locally in the area for a long ...

The most immediate and obvious impact is on pure production capacity. Manual processes for cooking, shaping, and wrapping are inherently limited by human speed and endurance. A single lollipop making ...

Well, here’s something you don’t get to write about every day — a Chinese engineer is receiving praise from all over the world for his ingenuity in turning an old hard-disk drive into a fully ...

Every masterpiece begins with a plan. In candy making, this is the precise, unglamorous, yet utterly critical stage of formulation. It's where confectioners act as architects, meticulously weighing ...