Looks like Upton Sinclair's "The Brass Check" was right.
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So which caramels should you give your Valentine? To find the best American small-batch, handmade chocolate-covered salted caramels, the Dining section held a blind tasting. Julia Moskin, Florence Fabricant and I sampled 27 candies, alongside Karen DeMasco, the pastry chef at Locanda Verde in Manhattan, and Michael Laiskonis, the creative director of the Institute of Culinary Education (and the former executive pastry chef at Le Bernardin). All can be bought online and delivered by the 14th.
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