As yesterday's Halloween treats are packed away, the sleigh bells start to ring! 🎅🛷🎄 Love it or loathe it, the countdown to Christmas has begun, which begs the question: 'What food and drink items will top the charts this year?' Cecelia Nowell’s excellent article in The Guardian describes the TV food effect perfectly -where sales of certain ingredients, gadgets and gizmos spike after recommendations from famous culinary faces. It’s an effect that is particularly potent around Christmas time, when more home cooks seek extra-special inspiration for their hosting. Remember when Jamie Oliver sent us all dashing for pomegranates (Morrisons started selling wonky ones to meet demand)? Or when Nigella gave us permission to use ready-to-roll? Let's not forget the Delia effect when her 2009 Christmas cake recipe saw candied chestnuts sell out everywhere. So, as we hurtle towards Christmas, what will be this year's must-have kitchen gadget or ingredient? I would love to know your predictions…
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Lessons learned from making over 600 chocolate-covered peanut butter balls Me getting ready for our annual candy making: "I set aside the whole afternoon to make candy" Mother-in-law: "we need to make 6 batches" Me: "Cool. How many is that?" Mother-in-law: "Not too many. Maybe 500 or so" Me: ………. opens wine After 2 full days, an insane amount of butter, sugar and chocolate, and plenty of Advil, I learned several things: 💪 There is no substitute for perseverance. Two 12 hour days of standing. My back is killing me, my feet hurt and I just want to sit down. But I can't leave my mother-in-law to do this herself. So I push through and just enjoy the process. Stick to the job that needs to be done. And keep melting that damn chocolate 💪 There is no substitute for mastery. If I was left up to my own devices, I guarantee the chocolate would have locked up, things would have melted. My mother-in-law's years of experience in doing that made it so she knew all the little tricks for melting chocolate on double boilers, the right consistency for the coconut bon-bons, and the right brand of almond bark. 💪 There is no substitute for a good attitude. Yes I'm tired of standing, no I don't want to taste anymore chocolate, no the Advil hasn't kicked in. But I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to spend this time with my mother-in-law, to have a warm house with Christmas music playing, to have my 4 year old daughter get the experience of making candy with family. So perspective matters. Get in the moment and enjoy the ride. I certainly learned plenty of other things: which Christmas stations on Apple Music are the best, that my new anti-fatigue kitchen mats are amazing, how much peppermint bark a 4 year old can eat before getting a tummy ache, what I don’t love about all of my aprons, and maybe most importantly, how much people love getting that box of candy from us every year. So I'm off to hide the chocolate-covered peanut butter balls so my son doesn't eat them all and sneak one myself. Merry Christmas everyone! #marketing #cmo #jessgmarketing
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