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Edward Marc Chocolatier has created a new twist on a classic chocolate treat that is sure to satisfy any chocoholic. Using recipes passed down from their great grandparents, these pieces of gourmet pretzels are covered in Edward Marc Chocolatier signature chocolate. Try Edward Marc Chocolatier Pretzel Bites in Milk Chocolate, White Frosted, Dark Chocolate and Peanut Butter for the ultimate taste sensation. Price per bag: $10.00
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/11/23/black-friday-zico-godiva-tinyprints-pretzel-bites/#518614-1-112311_thanksgiving_bites_4
Watch the Edwards Family appear on Emeril's Table airing October 18th!
The Edwards Family will be making an appearance on the Hallmark Channel's new show hosted by the world famous Chef Emeril Lagasse. Emeril’s Table will feature the Chocolatiers on October 18th at 11:00am on the Hallmark Channel.
Click the link below to preview Emeril’s new show and look out for the Edwards family making their famous Cajun Chocolate Shake. Come to The Milk Shake Factory and try one today!
To check your local listing, search the channel locator at: www.marthastewart.com/marthatv
Inside the Day of Indulgence Party
After grabbing a handful of Edward Marc’s salted caramels, Jennifer Garner went on the hunt for kids clothes, picking up pieces from Little Woo. Garner also found a few things for herself, including Cosabella intimates and necklaces from Lizzie Scheck.
http://news.instyle.com/photo-gallery/?postgallery=70449#9
The Best Chocolate Favors: Edward Marc Chocolatier
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so why not use this chocolate holiday as an excuse to try some sweet-tasting wedding favors? Order a few options, give them to your fiancé for V Day, and then spend a romantic evening taste-testing them together. Your chocoholic wedding guests will thank you, whether you end up offering truffles, chocolate bars or chocolate-covered Oreos. We searched the Web to find five delicious options, all of which come individually wrapped and are $6.00 or less per guest. If any of your guests forget to take theirs home, pack them up and enjoy them on your honeymoon! We'll reveal a new site every day this week, so be sure to check back.
In 1914, a young Greek couple left their homeland to bring handcrafted chocolates to America. Since then, the family recipes have been passed down, and the couple's descendants have continued the trade in the Pittsburgh headquarters of Edward Marc Chocolatier, making high quality chocolates of only the finest ingredients. Their 3-piece truffle boxes-which contain milk chocolate, dark raspberry, and white Champagne-make a fabulous favor and come in the company's signature blue box. We also love their innovative handmade chocolate menus, which come in milk, dark and white chocolate, and would look heavenly beside the centerpieces on your dining tables (price upon request). $6 for the 3-piece truffle box at edwardmarc.com.
SouthSide Sweetness!
The Milk Shake Factory on Pittsburgh's SouthSide has been doing milkshakes, sundaes and floats since 1914 and with that they are probably one of the last few standing true ice cream parlors around.
The Milk Shake Factory offers 55 different home-made flavors of ice cream. Don't forget to ask the Shaker behind the counter about the flavor of the week. Are you creative? You can mix together your own combination of flavors to create your special milk shake. They offer flavors like Strawberry, chocolate, Vanilla, Oreo, Bear Claw, Peanut Butter, Red Raspberry, Banana, Cherry Whitehouse and more.
If you are in the mood for a sundae, The Milk Shake Factory has 11 different menu options. How about an Old Fashion Banana Split, Mint Meltaway, or the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Sundae. An other opportunity for you to use your imagination and create your own special sundae for yourself is to ask for an Inspiration and create your own. You can add your own flavors of ice cream and toppings.
The Milk Shake Factory completes its menu with Chocolate and Vanilla Egg Creams which is a beverage made of chocolate syrup, milk and soda water, Floats, Ice cream sodas and spritzers.
While you are waiting for your milkshake or sundae to be complete. Walk around and check out their home-made gourmet chocolates and candies. Perfect for a Christmas gift, wedding anniversary, valentines or a nice treat just for yourself.
No matter what you order I promise it will be amazing. You will enjoy the old time feel and look of The Milk Shake Factory and the genuine attention to the desserts and the great aroma that it all the candy creates.
Chocolate Navigator
Check out the Chocolate Navigator recommended by The New York Times.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/chocolate/index.html
Overrated, Underrated in Pittsburgh
View Pittsburgh Magazine's most underrated Happy Hour.
http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/January-2011/Overrated-Underrated-in-Pittsburgh/
Stumping For Chocolate
Few former Bush aides still have a foothold in the Pentagon, but Christian Edwards and his sister, Dana Manatos—both of whom were aides for President George W. Bush—are more firmly ensconced there than ever. This time, as chocolatiers.
Edwards, 33, landed a job in the White House's advance office after volunteering on Bush's 2000 campaign. When Manatos graduated from college in 2003, she joined him. While Edwards traveled with Bush, Manatos, 30, plotted the President's schedule in five-minute slots. Both were promoted in 2005, but after years of sleeping with their BlackBerrys decided to leave during the summer of 2007. "It was a difficult decision," says Edwards. "We got to know the President in a way most people couldn't."
Instead of leveraging their connections into government jobs, they chose to revive Chocolate Celebrations, the Pittsburgh-based business that had been in their family for nearly a century. To reposition the business as a national gourmet brand, Edwards and Manatos raised $150,000 in personal funds and bank loans. For two years they experimented with recipes and packaging while setting up contracts with vendors. (The project was delayed when Edwards became Sarah Palin's deputy chief of staff in late 2008.) In 2009, they took the renamed company, Edward Marc Chocolatier, to market and brought on their younger brother, who, as "chief candy maker," had devised a menu of new flavors.
Their biggest coup was landing a coveted 1,500-square-foot boutique in the Pentagon this February. The location helped them win contracts with the State Dept., embassies, and members of Congress. "Working at the White house opened their horizons for what the family business could go into," says Dana Perino, Bush's former press secretary. "If you hadn't worked [there], you really wouldn't think your chocolate company could get a contract with the Department of Defense."
The siblings are planning stores for New York, Los Angeles, and Georgetown. Meanwhile, they're adding clients from both sides of the aisle—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among them. Says Edwards, "The chocolate business is nonpartisan."
When Life Is A Box of Chocolates
250,000: Pounds of cocoa used by Edward Marc this year, up from 30,000 three years ago
47: Percent increase in the chocolate company's sales from 2008 to 2009
$150,000: Money raised in 2007 to begin rebranding the family's chocolate business
18,968: Number of fresh-dipped strawberries sold since Feb. 1, at $29.95 a pound
Capital Chocolates
Edward Marc featured as a wedding favor in this brides.com article.
http://www.brides.com/blogs/aisle-say/2010/09/edward-marc-washington-dc-chocolate-company.html
Shopping Cart
Edward Marc Chocolates, based in Pittsburgh, have been crafted since 1914, but the company just opened a shop in the Pentagon concourse (at the Metro entrance) in February. Its pecan caramel terrapins are made with fat Texas nuts and are some of the best turtle confections we've tried. Covered in milk or dark chocolate: 12-ounce box, $20; 20-ounce box, $30. Call 877-488-1808 to order, or go to www.edwardmarc.com.
Source: The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com)
Pittsburgh Magazine's 40 Under 40
Mark Edwards named to the Pittsburgh's 40 Under 40 list.
http://40under40pittsburgh.org/?cat=3
Oh, What a Night!
Source: Capitol File magazine, Summer 2010 (www.capitolfilemagazine.com) Images from Capitol File magazine's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner afterparty.
Edward Marc: Charitable Chocolatier
Food & Spirits: 95-year-old family-owned confectionery and chocolate company Edward Marc Chocolatier combines global flavors, in both classic and avant-garde combinations for delicious specialty chocolates. Sourced ingredients include nuts from Africa and the Middle East, vanilla from Tahiti, cream from the American Midwest and other select ingredients all to complete mouth-watering flavors.
http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/dining/feature-589520.php
Pittsburgh-based Edward Marc Chocolatiers careful in approach to growth
It might sound odd for a chocolate company to say it doesn't want to be as big as Godiva.
But Chris Edwards says, with all due respect to the chocolate behemoth, he wants his family-owned company, Edward Marc Chocolatier, to keep the focus on quality; not quantity.
A Sweet Deal
Christian Edwards can tell you the exact page in Sarah Palin’s book where she mentions his peanut butter meltaways.
As Palin’s deputy chief of staff, he stocked the candidate’s plane with chocolate from his family’s company, Edward Marc Chocolatier. “Knowing that Governor Palin felt better after a long day just by eating our chocolate was very rewarding,” says Edwards.
He and his sister, Dana Edwards Manatos (she’s married to Tom Manatos, an advisor to Nancy Pelosi), are fourth-generation chocolate makers who run the company from a chic townhouse in DC’s West End. Their brother Mark is the CFO and oversees manufacturing in Pittsburgh.
The siblings have always made a good team. In fact, they worked right across from each other in the Bush White House. Edwards was the director of press advance for President Bush, and Manatos was the associate director of public liaison. “Working in the White House was great preparation for running the chocolate business,” Manatos says, “because of the organization, work ethic and long hours required.”
After leaving the White House, Edwards and Manatos decided to go back to the family’s gourmet chocolate company and were thrilled to discover that their political connections delivered them a clientele of high-powered chocoholics. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has given out their chocolate medallions embossed with her signature and the State Department logo, while Speaker Pelosi routinely gifts Edward Marc chocolates bearing her name.
The family also runs a shake shop, called The Milkshake Factory, in Pittsburgh in the space of their great-grandparents’ original 1914 soda fountain. An Edward Marc Chocolatier outpost opened earlier this year at the Pentagon (the first retail location for the company in the DC area) and another Milk Shake Factory may not be far behind.
Bridal Sweet
Edward Marc Chocolatier offers amazing customized products for weddings. Menus printed on rich slabs of milk, dark, or white chocolate are a delicious twist on the traditional tabletop staple, while medallions with custom monograms can add a sweet touch to cakes, favor boxes, or napkins. In addition to providing unique and delicious accouterments for your big day, Edward Marc will also give 20% of the purchase to your choice of eligible charitable organizations through their One Sweet Gesture Program. Call for lead times and pricing on personalized chocolates; edwardmarc.com, 412.488.1808.
Last Minute Mother’s Day Frenzy at The Pentagon
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is the epicenter of our nation's military and a hub of activity. An estimated 25,000 people work at this largest low-rise office building in the country.
It is also home to more than a dozen shops located in the Pentagon concourse.
The 96-year-old family-owned Edward Marc Chocolatier and Conklyn's Flowers were packed with people Friday, making last minute Mother's Day gift purchases. Both stores report high traffic and huge sales for the Mother's Day holiday.
Make A Marc
KOOKY FOR COCOA: Get on mom’s sweet side with a box of Edward Marc chocolates. The 95-year-old, family-owned company has box sets made especially for Mother’s Day. The Pearl Tower is a 32-piece gourmet assortment of chocolate truffles and roasted almond bark, while the Chocolate Indulgence will bring mommy a year’s worth of all kinds of chocolate treats once a month.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/blogs/want-this/Make-a-Marc-92431664.html
Out of the Spotlight, Ex-Officials Touch Lives in Global Rescue
There was chocolate. The wine flowed. But when a clutch of ex-White House officials and friends gathered recently in an elegant West End townhouse, it was not the average party. Former Laura Bush chief of staff Anita McBride and a circle of colleagues including former labor department official Martha Newton got together to support the Touch A Life Foundation, a group that rescues enslaved and abandoned children worldwide.
http://www.georgetowndish.com/thedish/out-spotlight-ex-officials-touch-lives-global-rescue
Rich & Tanecia's Valentine's Day Wedding
"A Valentine's Day wedding would not be complete without a chocolate table by Edward Marc Chocolatier. Our guests were able to fill up a box with the chocolate they liked to take home." - Tanecia, bride
http://www.theknot.com/contests/my-real-wedding/photo/147641/rich-amp-tanecia039s-valentine039s-day-wedding?sms_ss=twitter
Chocolate gifts that give back -- perfect for Valentine's Day
Thinking of gifts for Valentine’s Day? We found a sweet idea which will really warm your heart.
Edward Marc Chocolatier of Pittsburgh, PA offers gifts that give back via their "One Sweet Gesture" charitable initiative. More than just a simple box of gourmet chocolates, 20% of each purchase made via EdwardMarc.com (or via phone at 877.488.1808) is donated to one of three partner charities:
* The Make-A-Wish Foundation
* The Wounded Warrior Project
* The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh
Candy Review: Edward Marc Gourmet Chocolates and Pretzels
Independent review of Edward Marc Chocolatier's chocolates - chocolate assortment and peanut butter pretzels - on the Candy Addict blog.
http://candyaddict.com/blog/2009/12/21/candy-review-edward-marc-gourmet-chocolates-and-pretzels/
Edward Marc Chocolatier & 'One Sweet Gesture' for Valentine's Day
This Holiday Season & Valentine's Day, Edward Marc Chocolatier offers gifts that give back via the "One Sweet Gesture" charitable initiative. More than a simple box of gourmet chocolates, 20% of each purchase made via EdwardMarc.com (or via phone at 877.488.1808) is donated to one of three partner charities.
http://chictvblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/edward-marc-chocolatier-one-sweet.html
95 Years and Still Going Strong!
With the sad news of the Bead Mine closing there is some cheerful news for South Side shops and it just so happens to be located right next door.
For 95 years Edward Marc Chocolatier has been creating homemade chocolate creations using only the finest ingredients with a family recipe and tradition. Their products are now gaining national recognition with being featured on Fox News, Dr. Phil, and used by Iron Chef Cat Cora in recipes.
Sneak Peek into Santa's Sexy Stocking
Who doesn't love chocolate? Edward Marc, the prestigious 95-year-old- Pittsburgh-based gourmet chocolatier, is delighted to announce its ongoing charitable initiative, 'One Sweet Gesture', which allows customers to contribute 20 percent of the proceeds from the purchase to the company's partner charities: the Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Children's Institute and the Wounded Warrior Project.
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2009/12/10/sneak-peek-santas-sexy-stocking?slide=15#slide=15
Edward Marc Chocolatier featured on the Dr. Phil Show
Edward Marc Chocolatier was featured on the Dr. Phil show as part of the 'Holiday Surprises' episode . Iron Chef Cat Cora used Edward Marc white and dark chocolate to create her delicious desserts!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4egNTCdDcs
Holiday Gifts that Give Back
Blog post from www.extraordinarymommy.com about gifts that give back - including Edward Marc Chocolatier's One Sweet Gesture campaign.
"Obviously this year hasn't been the easiest, based on the economy. So we wanted to make sure that we were giving you some ideas about gifts...that give back."
"Here's a sweet option for you: chocolate. EdwardMarc.com - and that's Marc with a 'C' - they have a program called One Sweet Gesture; 20% of the proceeds from your purchase can be donated to one of three charities that they're working with..."
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