- 26 results for candy+making
Edits / Food & Drink
Ghraoui chocolate
Bassam Ghraoui and his workers defy the Syrian heat to produce exquisitely packaged, award-winning chocolates and fondants. We join them to find out why, for Ghraoui, the future is orange.
Edits / Food & Drink
Cream of the crop
With the growing Latino population in the US and Europe, and following on the success of Häagen-Daz’s dulce de leche ice cream (now its most popular flavour after vanilla), there is growing demand outside of Latin America…
Business / Aviation
Briefing business
Why fixing planes is better than flying them, why investors dig the student life and posh pawn gets the pulses racing in the US.
End Point / Monocle
Observation
The saga of finding a new Monocle headquarters continues and while we’ve been dreaming about what our home will look like, we’ve also been thinking about our next retail venture and noticing a gaping hole in the newsstand…
Design / Fashion
Briefing fashion
Prada turns brogue and how to stay snug this autumn.
Design / Interior design
With more interest
In a radical shift from its traditional brand identity, Sugamo Shinkin Bank has adopted an innovative and colourful design for its new Niiza branch. It looks more like an art gallery than a bank, and that seems to be having…
Edits / Food & Drink
Turin, shrewd
Guido Martinetti is one half of the chilled duo behind Grom ice cream (and one of our ‘new heroes’ featured in issue 29). When he is not on the road checking on suppliers, he can be found around Piazza Carlo Felice in his…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
Here are five of Melbourne’s newest off-the-radar bars and kitchens opened by young chefs, baristas, barkeepers and designers.
Design / Fashion
Briefing fashion
Reclaiming the tote, looking killer in Kilgour and why its good to have a lot of Acne this summer.
Edits / Retail
Inventory No. 36
This month’s treats include iced coffee from Japan, Moroccan wine and dog food that sounds so tasty you’ll want to eat it.
Design / Food & Drink
Fast Finnish
In Finland, organic produce makes up just 1.5 per cent of the food market. One deli is feeding this nascent movement by creating a new fast-food retail concept that combines fresh, healthy fare with well-thought-out design…
Culture / Music
Culture briefing
Books: Re-issue of a post-apocalyptic classic, photos of New York store fronts and a graphic trip through neurotic adolescence. Film: Two delectable French thrillers: L'instinct de Mort and Pour Elle. Music: Electro-rock…
Business / Innovation
Germany's Bottle Bank
Germany is the eighth biggest exporter of wine, shipping 280 million litres in 2005; but it’s also the world’s largest importer of wine, buying 1.19 billion litres the same year. Like France, the country has struggled…
Affairs / Business Hubs
Drugs, guns and nice sofas
On millionaires’ row in Herat, elaborate palaces are being built by businessmen who have made fortunes from exploiting the needs of the new Afghanistan – or selling heroin. A heady mix of Iranian, Italian and Gulf influe…
Business / Industry
Fishy business
If you can’t secure a job as an urban planner by day you can always become an ornamental fish hobbyist by night and engineer a perfect underwater world. At the heart of the €10bn international trade in ornamental fish is…
Edits / Manufacturing
Inventory no. 62
Time to shine your shoes, pamper your pooch and brighten up your home with this month’s assortment of objects.
Edits / Food & Drink
Shelf obsession
For quality of life a local deli can make a real difference. These are Monocle’s five favourite food stores from around the world that are offering that bit extra, from the Sydney shop with its own homemade brands to an…
Culture / Arts
Finishing touches
The Rijksmuseum’s overhaul has taken 10 long years. However, it is finally ready to reopen its doors to reveal an interior revamp that is almost as impressive as the wealth of art it so beautifully displays.
Design / Fashion
Close-Knit Family
Despite its 223-year history, and rural setting, there is nothing dyed in the wool about British knitwear business John Smedley. This is a company that has thrived on its ability to move with the times – and now it is…