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Jerry Cohen, owner of Economy Candy, a sweet tooth wonderland on New York City's Lower East Side, has worked there ever since he was a kid. He knows the store's vast inventory as well as anyone - everything from the Banana French Taffy Chews to rainbow-colored Gummy Sour Worms. In anticipation of the holiday, Nextbook's Blake Eskin takes a guided tour of Jerry's Passover candy selection, which includes fresh fruit slices and chocolate dipped macaroons. This piece runs at 7:30, but could easily be cut to accomodate other formats. It is playful, deadpan at times, and slightly irreverent - a nice departure for those looking for some light Passover content for their station. The piece was produced for the Nextbook.org podcast. Nextbook.org is an online Jewish culture magazine.
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Review of Passover candy - an audio tour of a Lower East Side candy storeBlake does a nice job of taking us on an audio tour of this great candy store. I had no idea that Kosher candy canes and chocolate rabbits exist. I'm glad I learned something new from this piece. I like the sense of place from recording the interview/tour in the store. Overall, a great piece. It would work great for a drop-in to any magazine during Passover. Audio tours are hard to do and this one is well done. A few suggestions. Blake should put his name at the top of the piece so we know who he is and it would self-contain the piece. I like the description of the store and the candy, but a few more visuals would be helpful. What is the clientele like? Blake could tell us this based on his observation. A bit more on the candy would be helpful too - what does it look like, feel like etc. There is some of this, and it is good, but I would like to hear a bit more.
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The piece has never been broadcast on air. It was posted for podcast on 4/6/06.
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Review of Passover candy - an audio tour of a Lower East Side candy store
This podcast installment is an entertaining visit with your basic New York character, candy man Jerry Cohen. He's engaging and a bit crusty, blithely undermining the focus of the piece by saying he doesn't like Passover candy--though he eats candy all day and loves eating the ears of broken chocolate Easter bunnies. Host Blake Eskin does a nice job as the curious, good-natured straight man. Nicely produced, a quality production.