“Everybody is always like Wonka this, Wonka that, but I just never relate,” said Maayan Zilberman, a lingerie savant turned conceptual confectioner and the creator of Sweet Saba, an avant-garde candy company.
…Behind her was a container of candy rings that resemble men’s sex toys, made with edible gold and pectin. Ms. Zilberman had prepared them initially for a baby shower. “It was for the parents’ friends, not the baby,” she said. Much to her amusement, the $10 rings are often misidentified as doll bracelets by young customers. “They’re some of my best sellers.”
There are also candies that look like gold Rolexes but taste like Champagne ($10), eucalyptus-flavored Q-tips ($8 for six) and pencils that taste like grass ($12 for four). Ms. Zilberman worked with a food technologist to develop about 30 flavors, which include bubble gum, bacon, whiskey and mother’s milk.
“It’s mostly just cream,” Ms. Zilberman said of the last one.
Here is the Joshua David Stein NYT piece. Here is Zilberman’s Instagram page, try this photo of the candy.
Well, it’s clear there is no great stagnation.
Is it?
Does she offer overnight shipping?
“eucalyptus-flavored Q-tips ($8 for six) ” – is that six or sex? Ooh, kinky.
Would anybody care to hear about my chocolate covered edible treats?
You’re so rich, in so many ways.
A good example of why contempt for capitalism springs eternal.
The woman is too skinny to be an effective advertisement for chocolates. I have similar opinions about chefs.
Sure, physical appearance is a marker of how much the person enjoys food. Being overweight just signals accumulated fat, not eating larger quantities or more delicious food than thin people.
Does she have some condition that I should feel compassion for? (if so, sorry! she’s an inspiration!) Is that just a very weird angle for the picture or is she anorexic with a giant head? Or some combination of those or something else again? I can’t understand that picture….
The animal exploitation industry is hard enough to justify when it produces everyday food for sustenance.
I don’t think you can justify torturing cows to produce trivialities like high-end candy.
The Aurok, the beast from which we bread modern cows has long been extinct, yet cows number one for every five humans. They contribute to our society and we ensure they survive. They day we stop exploiting them for milk and meat (lab grown meat is on the way) is they day they go extinct.
Better extinct than enslaved. Well, may not, if we were nicer to them.
Sounds like an opinion. If you respected the cows that much, why would you project yours onto them?
No justification is needed.
Cool, though ten bucks for a big lifesaver is kind of steep. If she’s getting the prices listed on her website, I’m seriously impressed. I’m not sure how the “avant-garde” label applies.
This is the most blatant and obvious
Request from readers
For an edible erotic Christmas present that
I have ever read.
Merry Christmas.
I’m surprised Tyler will admit to liking something in NYC, he’s recently been so deeply invested in lowering the city’s relative status.
AP Armlovich! Sounds like you have a vested interest in keeping NYC above its natural status…
Haha very true…But Tyler has been spending too much time in or near Penn station when he visits, which is admittedly one of the worst places on earth. But then he extrapolates to the rest of the city and calls it “overwhelming” and “oppressive”. He probably hasn’t been to Gramercy or Cobble Hill or Jackson Heights in years.
She’s attractive and Tyler’s type so he’ll make an exception.
You got her number?
I imagine female Jews are quite diverse in quite a lot of ways. Consider the political and religious spectrum existing in Israel, for example.