The New York Times

The Agony of Gift-Giving in a City That Has Seen It All

By Ginia Bellafante

Not far away, at Mast Brothers, a maker of what it calls craft chocolates, I got the sense that the owners believed craft chocolates were no longer enough. I was told that pastries were now being made on the premises by “a renowned pastry chef from Finland.” Handmade satchels were also for sale for $160, made from recycled cocoa bean sacks used in the factory. As the display tag explained: “They have been waxed with organic, unbleached beeswax.”

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