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Award for Business Excellence The Sweet Basket Company is proud to be the recipient of the prestigious Canadian Consumer Choice Award for business excellence. Our employees, our quality products and our exemplary level of customer service is what led us to this achievement.   Emerging as the company of choice in Montreal is a great honor...

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New Baby

Unique Baby Names! You envision your child, who has yet to be born, to be the most beautiful, sweetest, most amazing person in the universe. Therefore, you'd like to give him or her a name that is truly unique-one that sets your baby apart from the rest. Since every child is...

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Chocolate

Chocolate is Good for You! Great news on the chocolate front! Chocolate is good for you. Under certain circumstances.   Katherine Tallmadge, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, says, in the February 9, 2005, WASHINGTON POST, that “cacao, or cocoa beans, contain ‘flavanols,’ naturally occurring plant compounds also found in tea, red wine,...

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Chocolate

Chocolate Glossary! AFRI-KOKO A chocolate-coconut cordial made in Sierra Leone. BITTER CHOCOLATE Known as the best type of chocolate for baking, it is made from chocolate liquid which has been cooled and molded into blocks. Also Known As: Unsweetened Chocolate.   BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE A dark chocolate containing a minimum of 35% chocolate liquor as a general rule. In...

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Spa

Spa in a Cup! We are so pleased to have recently acquired our lastest luxury brand- Tea Forté – a truly enchanting line of extraordinary gourmet teas.   Tea Forté is an award-winning specialty tea which captures the “Art of Tea”. Known for their signature silken tea infusers made by hand and using whole...

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Chocolate

The Health Benefits of Chocolate With the New Year come and gone, many of us are making good on a resolution to eat healthier. So what's a chocolate lover to do?   Good news. Research says you can have your cake and eat it, too. As long as that cake is chocolate.For centuries,...

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