Southern Living just released their 2016 Food Award Winners. The editors of Southern Living have traveled from Atlanta to Austin, “sipping and sampling hundreds of artisan-made products.” Included on this list are selections from ice cream, spreads, dips, condiments, beer, spirits and mixers and, of course, best confection where Olive & Sinclair made the list for their Smoked Nib Brittle.
Olive & Sinclair is Tennessee’s 1st & only bean-to-bar chocolate company. Slow Roasted & Stone Ground, O&S was founded in 2007 and full sales and production of Southern Artisan Chocolate™ began in fall of 2009. Olive & Sinclair takes pride in their take on bean-to-bar chocolate known as Southern Artisan Chocolate™. This concept began with idea of stone grinding chocolate, inspired by the method used for stone ground grits, using melangeurs (stone mills) from the early 1900’s and adding only pure cane brown sugar for a robust flavor and slow sweetness that is definitive of Southern Artisan Chocolate™.
Southern Living’s Pick For Best Confection: Smoked Nib Brittle
Olive & Sinclair Chocolate Co.
Nashville, TN
$14.99 for 6 oz.; oliveandsinclair.com
Cocoa nibs—bathed in the haze of country ham legend Allan Benton’s smokehouse—add an extra layer of depth to this buttery, sweet brittle.
Recently opened in downtown Franklin, Seersucker Candy Company, the sister company of Olive & Sinclair, offers the same handmade chocolates with flavors of chocolate with bacon and jam. They also offer “adult sour patch kids” in lemon and blackberry cabernet flavors.
See the complete listing with two other Nashville companies listed on the 2016 Southern Living Food Awards on their website.
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