LOOKING BACK

A FORMER sweet shop at 214A Ballarat Road in Footscray was expected to fetch between $420,000 and $460,000 at the auction conducted by Hocking Stuart this past week. But the appealing little place found a ready buyer at $497,000.

Some Sweet Bargains At The Lolly Counter

RALPH NORRIS is like the kid in the lolly shop ... during a lolly run-out sale.

Sweet Celebration Of Ramadan

FAROUK EL BAHSA multiplied his daily turnover tenfold yesterday, selling 40,000 pieces of maamoul, the traditional Lebanese sweet pastry that is distributed during festivities marking the end of the Muslim season of Ramadan.

Sweet Dreams

An empire founded on glucose, wheat starch and sugar continues to prosper.

A Short Stroll To The Sky

Kevin Pilley meets sweet tooths and entrepreneurs along Waterfall Way.

Sweet And Sour / Good Game / Basil With Bite

Sweet and sour

The Sweet Smell Of Success Is Not Lost On O'flynn

Catherine O'Flynn didn't expect to write a prize-winner, it just emerged from her day-to-day activities working in a shopping centre, writes Jason Steger.

Such Sweet Success

Illawarra talent has a big part to play in the 2008 Short+Sweet festival as KILMENY ADIE discovers. Short+Sweet artistic director Mark Cleary sits in a Sydney coffee shop and ponders his connection to the Illawarra. An ex, he announces, before elaborating that he once dated someone who lived in the region. This answer is immediately laughed off by Cleary as a very tenuous connection to the area.

To Market Sweet Potato

SWEET potato, or the Maori name of kumara as it sometimes goes by, is a wonderfully versatile vegetable with a delicious sweet flavour as the name suggests.

Sweet Shop Not Sweatshop, Says Darrell Lea On Awas

THE federal workplace watchdog is investigating claims that Darrell Lea chocolate shops has pressured casuals into signing Australian Workplace Agreements that cut public holiday pay by more than $100 a shift.

Pretty Tasty Pastry Sweet Source Carlton North

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Sweet Source, 288 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North

Work That Is A Sweet Treat

WHEN I was eight I used to stack shelves in my parents' corner shop - surrounded by chocolate temptations that could have sent me straight to hospital.

Dandenong - 3175

Thomas Street, Dandenong, is the new Kabul, with five Afghani bakeries, and new restaurants opening all the time. Foster Street, Dandenong, is the much loved "Little India", with three Indian sweet shops and an Ethiopian restaurant. The area is dotted with specialist grocery stores.

Exploiting The Sweet Scent Of Success

Janine Perrett meets a couple whose shop is filled with fragrance and beauty.

Sweet Season

Easter brings out the best - and most colourful - handmade chocolates. Chocolate Plato Shop K1C, RHODES SHOPPING CENTRE, RIDER BOULEVARD, RHODES, 97396309. Open Mon-Fri 10am-7pm (Thu 9pm), Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 10am-6pm

The Home Of Handmade Treats

Chocolate lovers will find paradise in a special sweet shop at Shellharbour Village, reports KILMENY ADIE TRICIA DWYER takes a moment to decide which of the many handmade chocolates under her counter is her iconic one.