Food of the outside world. Did you know the US had one? “Currently Chef Notter is the pastry coach of the USA Culinary Olympic Team which represents the USA in international culinary competitions.” EMC: About Us, cited 5 Dec 2025.
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Chocolates, Elizabeth Moore Chocolates, Pelham AL USA
Cookies, Benton’s Speculoos, Aldi
Per EMC, bon-bons are made with a Speculoos cream and crushed cookie pieces. Per me, yum. Definitely prefer my speculoos in bonbon form.
Technical note. Check out the color difference in photos taken the same day, minutes apart, with the same distance from camera to subject. Taken with phone camera on auto. I know color is something that pro photographers have to address. I don’t usually see it this obviously.
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Update. TIL about light. Photo tip from comment below, “light changes every 15 minutes” & “I’ve learned that I have to take a photo, if it is dependent on certain sunlight and shadows and angles, asap, or it will change to something else.” Thank you to MM.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
I did not know that the US had a culinary Olympic Team. Interesting.
The team is cookin’!
Didn’t know about the US Culinary Olympic team. Will have to try and find them competing. I wonder what they make? and their competitors?
Re the color change — Very cool arrangement of foods! Who knows what the sensor in iPhone read each time. (I am not one for iPhone-ology.) One reason might be that light changes every 15 minutes (like the degrees on a world map). Maybe it was a that day’s rotation, or moments, that changed the light, that the camera was reading. Or maybe something briefly blocked or filtered the sunlight? Just guessing here. I’ve learned that I have to take a photo, if it is dependent on certain sunlight and shadows and angles, asap, or it will change to something else. MM
See above.