We all enjoy the crooked confections each Christmas, but few of us know how a candy cane is made. Alice visits Laughing Moon Chocolates in Stowe and learns that creating the edible ornaments is far more arduous than Santa would have you think.

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AAN award-winning food writer Alice Levitt is a fan of the exotic, the excellent and automats. She wrote for Seven Days 2007-2015.