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Northshore October 2025
Editors’ Choice Ye Olde Pepper Candy Companie, Salem and North Andover   Philosophy: Stay true to your roots. The nation’s oldest candy shop is still pleasing sweet teeth more than 200 years after launching, with many original recipes. Classics like Gibralters in lemon and peppermint and the dark, intense Black Jacks, candy sticks made with black strap molasses, remain unchanged from their postcolonial roots.  What’s unique: A whole array of candies that are becoming increasingly hard to find, from horehound squares to Sassafras Slugs, not to mention a luscious array of fudge and cinnamon gi
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