Meghan Olesen: Caramelpalooza Candymakers

[jump] I ended up in the kitchen because I speak better with my hands. My favorite dish to make is bacon One dish I'm afraid to make is anything with live lobsters My favorite kind of candy is a lemon drop. Caramel should be eaten slowly. I always brush my...

By Amy Silverman

March 3, 2011

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I ended up in the kitchen because I speak better with my hands.

My favorite dish to make is bacon

One dish I'm afraid to make is anything with live lobsters

My favorite kind of candy is a lemon drop.

Caramel should be eaten slowly.

I always brush my teeth after 9.

Find Meghan and 11 other chefs at Caramelpalooza, Friday, March 11, from 7 til the caramel runs out, Smeeks candy store, northwest corner of Central and Camelback.

Catch up with the other candymakers we've profiled so far:

Tammie Coe, Eugenia Theodopolous, Charlie Blonkenfeld

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.