America's One-Of-A-Kind Foods

Wine and Food
Specialty gourmet products offer customers something unique but also the experience of helping create it.
The shelves of Tad Van Leer's small chocolate factory, J. Emanuel Chocolatier, in Chester, N.J., are stocked with standard fare like wine truffles and foil-wrapped miniature chocolate soccer balls. But ...
... what helps keep customers coming back are Van Leer's more customized confections that show a personal touch.
On a recent afternoon, one of his employees was affixing chocolates shaped like the number "3" to lollipop sticks and pumping liquid chocolate into a rectangular mold that read "Burgdorff." His customers--in this case, ...

Full Story: America's One-Of-A-Kind Foods; by Rebecca Ruiz, on Forbes.com