Truffles Newsletter

Welcome to Part 3 of my report on my visit to Croatia.  This week I’m focusing on the beach, countryside and some history of my native country. Hope you enjoy it.  If you missed the first two parts, you can see them here:  https://sweetdesigns.com/blogs/truffles-newsletter  Ines    Of course, the beaches here are picturesque!  But they are not much frequented by the locals, it is mostly tourists.  Instead of sand, the beaches have pebbles.  You put the towel down over the pebbles and it feels like a massage – they are comfortable and warm to recline on.  The water here is also...

Our store in Lakewood is approximately 4,500 miles from my childhood home in Croatia, but as soon as I arrived in our village, I was instantly back in the land of childhood memories - life on our farm and the joy of locally sourced food.  Today, I'd like to share my thoughts about some of the homemade meals and foods that I enjoyed on my recent trip.  Food Facts, Favorites and Recommendations!  Nothing beats Mom’s cooking. My mother’s chickens give us the best eggs - the yolks are so big and orange. Here we are cooking them on an old wood-burning...

  Mother’s Day became a federal holiday in 1914 under Woodrow Wilson, thanks to the unwavering efforts of Anna Jarvis. Jarvis, who was a single woman without children, believed her own mother to be deserving of a day of honor and wrote to every state governor in1908 petitioning for an official day for moms. In the 1930s, a Mother’s Day tradition was born: breakfast in bed. Thanks to many newspaper articles recommending that children and fathers alike honor their matriarchs with breakfast in bed, the practice stuck. Read on to learn about some unique ideas to serve your matriarch the...

Yana, who came from Ukraine, joined the Sweet Designs team earlier this year. Prior to developing her video and social media skills, she was a middle-school teacher. Truffles: What’s it like to be a videographer at a chocolatier?   Yana: I like my job a lot.  It is what I love to do – creating short videos, making something different, and making people happy with my content.  It motivates me to do better.  I also like working at Sweet Designs because it’s a nice environment with great co-workers.  I am an artistic person, and I never expected to find a job...