Articles by Bernie Pacyniak

True 'Goodfellas'

May 3, 2010
I’m sure most of you have seen the Martin Scorsese film “Goodfellas” starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci, which focuses on main character Henry Hill’s career as a Brooklyn mob wise-guy.
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Mark Your Calendar

February 11, 2010
As we - at least those of us who live in northern climes - watch the last vestiges of winter give way to tulip tips breaking through the ground, it becomes just that much easier to start thinking about spring.
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So what is it about candy?

January 9, 2010
In between ongoing updates about Kraft Foods’ bid to swallow up Cadbury PLC, I perused our Global Top 100 listing gleaned by our annual contributor, Paul Rogers.
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Was 2009 'annus horribilis'?

January 6, 2010
The last time I used a Latin phrase in a headline, one of my colleagues teased me unmercifully, arguing that no one had the faintest idea what I was trying to convey.
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The True Meaning of Sustainability

December 16, 2009
Haves and have nots. It’s a lot easier to espouse sustainability when you have plenty of resources to … well, sustain oneself, as opposed to being in a position where you’re fighting to establish a livelihood for yourself and your family.
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'Sweet Home, Chicago'

October 27, 2009
“We was robbed!” That’s all I could think of when Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced - in his Hercule Poirot voice - that Chicago had been eliminated in the first round.
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Exits and Entrances

October 6, 2009
Editor Bernie Pacyniak discovers that the confectionery world doesn’t stop turning while he takes advantage of summer’s last hurrah during a family vacation.
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Easy 'Cart' Riders

September 9, 2009
I recall the first time I saw a three-wheel bike in a cookie/cracker bakery many years ago. As a novice to the industry, I wasn’t quite sure what a bicycle was doing in a food processing plant.
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99% Cocoa, 220% Issue

August 13, 2009
When I returned to Stratham, N.H., earlier this summer to visit Lindt USA, I was impressed by how much it had changed since my first visit in 2001.
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Looking ahead

August 11, 2009
Pinch yourself. No, this isn’t an attempt to determine your pain tolerance level. Waterboarding is now definitely a no-no here in the United States. Rather, the pinching is simply an interactive approach of saying we’ve survived the first half of 2009.
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A Venetian Carnival, a Jelly Belly sculpture and gourmet chocolates! Oh my!

Candy Industry takes you into the French Pastry’s School For the Love of Chocolate event in Chicago, held Feb. 25.

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