The Business of Halloween
Trick-or-treating is big business! The chocolate industry is expected to reach $24.9 billion by 2027 (Mintel), and seasonal non-chocolate candy sales "represent a notable portion of candy sales and are growing" (IBISWorld). To learn more about the history of chocolate, candy, and the companies at the center of this industry, check out these books available on the shelves at Pardee or online through the BU Libraries Catalog. Happy Halloween from the Pardee staff!
Featured Books for Halloween
Pez: From Austrian Invention to American Icon by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2016Join the world's first and only official PEZ historian, Shawn Peterson, on a journey of sweet proportions for an inside look at the world's most cherished interactive candy.
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Location: Pardee Stacks HD9200.U54 H473 1999Publication Date: 1998In this eight-year investigation of the candy business, former Washington Post reporter Joel Glenn Brenner takes us inside a world where industrial spies jockey for trade secrets and paranoid executives fight an all-out war for America's sweet tooth.
Books for Halloween
Hammond's Candies : History Handmade in Denver by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014Author Corky Thompson traces the history and growth of this family-owned company from 1920 until its sale at the end of the twentieth century and follows its transition under new ownership to the present time.
Sweet As Sin: The Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America's Favorite Pleasure by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2016A food historian tells the whole story of candy, from the harvesting of the marshmallow plant in ancient Egypt to the mass-produced innovations of the twentieth century. Along the way, the reader is treated to an assortment of entertaining facts and colorful characters.
In Chocolate We Trust: The Hershey Company Town Unwrapped by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Peter Kurie explores his hometown of Hershey, PA and its relationship to its namesake company. For Hershey the town, Hershey the brand is a source of both local pride and scandalous controversy. Kurie draws on diverse voices across the community to show how philanthropy stirs passions and interests well beyond intended beneficiaries.
Sugar: A Global History by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015First cultivated in New Guinea around 8,000 B.C.E., sugar today dominates our appetites, for better and worse. Andrew F. Smith offers a fascinating history of this simultaneously beloved and reviled ingredient, holding its incredible value as a global commodity up against its darker legacies of slavery and widespread obesity.
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Location: Pardee Stacks HD9200.U52 H4715 2006Publication Date: 2006Michael D'Antonio tells the inspiring, feel-good story of Milton S. Hershey, one of the last century's most eccentric and idealistic titans of industry. Hershey pioneered techniques of branding, mass production, and marketing, but never stopped serving those in need.
Sweets and Candy: A Global History by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Laura Mason describes the bewildering and fascinating ways in which different cultures have made, consumed, valued, and adored sweets throughout history. Featuring a selection of mouthwatering illustrations and scrumptious recipes to try at home, this global candy trail will delight sweet-toothed foodies and history buffs everywhere.
The Baker Chocolate Company by Location: Mugar Stacks HD9200.U54 B357 2009Publication Date: 2009In 1765, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester and Irishman John Hannon met at the Neponset River, and there built America's oldest and most beloved manufacturer of chocolate. Historian Anthony Sammarco details the bitter and sweet saga of Massachusetts's Baker Chocolate Company.
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