"candy store" news and stories

Doughnuts. Photo: jwannie, flickr.

A few of the best stories spied elsewhere on the Web this week:

The world's largest candy store is set to open in Dubai, complete with mall-roaming mascot.

With more upscale restaurants open for breakfast, doughnuts are popping on many of their menus.

Celebrity chefs, including Guy Fieri, Paula Deen and Anthony Bourdain, hit the road like rock stars on tour.

A Sydney restaurant has been fined for topless food handlers, just one of many food safety infractions on New South Wales Government's Name and Shame Web site.

Slashfoodie Pervaiz Shallwani interviews Julia Child's editor Judith Jones about her new book "The Pleasures of Cooking for One."

"Top Chef" finalist and ladies' man Fabio Viviani gets his own Bravo reality show.

Mario Batali will not have to give up his precious orange Crocs -- the company has been saved from going out of business.

No, the groom is not dressed like a jellybean. Bride-to-be Lori Woolery is simply being escorted down the aisle by a well dressed Jelly Belly during her wedding at Jelly Belly Center in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. It was there that she married Daymon Tracy this Wednesday. "We were looking for something different," Woolery told the Associated Press. The vice chairman of the Jelly Belly Candy Company even drove in for the event.

[Photo: AP/Kenosha News, Brian Passino]