Loqhum, a Turkish candy shop in Garden Grove, opened inside Fresh Choice Marketplace in May, dazzling customers with spectacular candies straight from Istanbul. The candy is shipped in small batches ...

Tucked in the back room of a tiny powdered-sugar-dusted San Fernando Valley storefront, Armand Sahakian patiently tends to the sweet syrup bubbling in two giant copper caldrons. Six days a week, the ...

Turkish delight or lokum is the most popular sweet in Turkiye and one of the country’s most famous exports. But it must also be the only candy that is symbolic of geopolitical tensions: Greece, which ...

Once you’ve seen how enchanted children are by the movie version of C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” it’s hard to take the hubbub about overbearing ...

In 1921, an ad in The Seattle Times touted a brand new candy called "Aplets," a new confection made "from the finest Washington apples and honey and walnuts." A few years later, Aplets were joined by ...

Though sales are up in the U.K., no one thinks the exotic, rose-flavored candy will catch on in the U.S. Though Turkish Delight was said to have brought peace to a sultan’s quarreling harem, Americans ...

The movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” has done for Turkish delight candy what “Sideways” did for Pinot Noir wine — given it an unexpected popularity boost. It’s ...

Armenian immigrants Mark Balaban and Armen Tertsagian launched two businesses that failed, but their Liberty Orchards venture — and its Aplets & Cotlets — remains prosperous. Promotional art from ...