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Moore’s Candies, a family business since 1919, sells handcrafted

chocolates, including chocolate crabs and chocolate crab cups.

Get your two to three daily servings of dairy at Broom’s

Bloom, which makes ice cream in such flavors as peanut

butter, green tea mango and maraschino cherry chip.

The shop also sells homemade farmstead cheese and

milk in glass bottles.

How sweet it is to stroll or sit on the Promenade at22-acre Tydings Park, at the head of Chesapeake Bay.

Bomboy’s Home Made Candy makes chocolate

fish and ducks, Havre de Mints, fudge, chocolate-

covered pretzels and chocolate-caramel-cashew

crabs. The treats are crafted in the shop basement,

which has a 400-pound chocolate melter.

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You name it, the Bel Air Bakery probablybakes it, from cannolis to chocolate whippedcream logs to sugar-free cookies.

What tastes better than dessert? Free dessert!Every diner at Mamie’s Cafe gets cake, ricepudding or bread pudding on the house.

Practice your ABCs at 78-year-old Goll’s Bakery,which etches on its pie crusts the first letter of thefruit inside (lemon, peach, raisin, pineapple).

The family-owned chain Wockenfuss HomemadeCandies has “crabby pops,” chocolate-covered Oreos,saltwater taffy, caramel apples and nonpareils the sizeof Reese’s peanut butter cups.

When Montreal-born Lucie Yeakel couldn’t find allher favorite French treats in northern Maryland, sheopened Patisserie Lucie, which carries napoleons,eclairs, brioches, chocolate croissants and quiches.

Slurp down some caffeinatedcandy at Java by the Bay.Its Milky Way is espresso withfoamy steamed milk, caramelchocolate and whipped cream.

Get a three-scoop icecream sundae at thePromenade Grille,overlooking the CityYacht Basin.

Fido will beg for thesnacks at PamperedPaws Gourmet TreatsPet Bakery & Boutique, including filet mignon-flavored Woofy Pop(microwave popcorn),Bark Bars and Buck’sBodacious Brownies.

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RoadTrip Treat Your Sweet Tooth to Maryland’s Candy Land

WHERE: Harford County, Md.

WHY: Chocolate crabs, ice cream fresh from the cowand free dessert.

HOW FAR: About 22 miles from start to finish, andabout 65 miles from Washington.

M aryland is known for crabs, but HarfordCounty is the place for chocolate crabs.

Located about 20 miles northeast ofBaltimore and where the Susquehanna

River meets the Chesapeake Bay, the Maryland coun-ty has more family-owned bakeries, homemade-chocolate stores, creameries and sweet shops thanshould be permitted in one jurisdiction. (Let’s hopethey have an inordinate number of dentists, too.)

The towns there include Bel Air, Aberdeen and Ha-vre de Grace. Each has its own flavor, but all move at awonderfully slow pace, like a lazy chocolate river inCandy Land. Bel Air, the county seat, has a lively, re-

cently redeveloped Main Street and, most important,is the site of the annual Bel Air Chocolate Festival inMarch. Aberdeen is the home of the Ripken baseballdynasty and Ripken Stadium, where you can find pea-nuts, Cracker Jack and cotton candy. And Havre deGrace, on the waterfront, is filled with antiquesshops, boutiques and duck decoys.

Despite the towns’ differences, they all share ataste for the sweet things in life. “It’s unusual to havechocolate shops or old-fashioned bakeries thesedays,” says Jimmy Hamilton, owner of the 54-year-oldBel Air Bakery. “They’re kind of a thing of the past.”Fortunately, candy never goes out of style.

— Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are

addresses and hours of operation. (Be sure tocheck before you go.) Have an idea for a trip?E-mail roadtrip@washpost.com.

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MediaMix A Quick Take on New Releases

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Barnes’s second novel tells the quietlyhaunting two-part tale of a newlymarried couple who shed theirprivileged backgrounds to forge newbeginnings in 1960s rustic Idaho.

“There was the groan, the growl, the roar of theanimal Helen had become, and then the headwas turning beneath his fingers. . . . ”

— Helen gives birth to Elise, the focus of the novel’s second half

The Pulitzer Prize finalist’s descriptions of therugged landscape quiver with stark beauty,wisdom and redemptive grace, much as hercharacters do.

By the novel’s end, none of the charactersremains untouched by tragedy: drug addiction,untimely death, gnawing loneliness. This book isa downer.

— Reviewed by Alexis Burling

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Is Sparks even trying anymore? Was heever? This pat, predictable slog skatesacross the surface with one-dimensionalcharacters, hokey dialogue and a totallack of tension, sexual or otherwise.

— Sara Cardace

FIt can be tempting to distract one’smind during these trying times, andthis novel certainly won’t tax any braincells, though a lobotomy might bepreferable for ardent lit-ophiles.

“He’d known she was attractive, but the fadedphoto didn’t capture the warmth of her smile orthe serious way she studied him, as if searchingfor hidden flaws.”

— Mysterious traveler Thibaultconsiders the object of his affection

The best-selling author (“TheNotebook,” “Nights in Rodanthe”)

delivers another movie-treatment-ready work,this one about the unlikely romance between anIraq war veteran and the stranger whose photocarries him through the hard times.

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Jennifer HudsonJennifer HudsonArista$18.98

BEven Hudson can’t overcome the disc’s

over-reliance on the usual studio suspects(Timbaland, T-Pain, Ne-Yo) and on persistentlytame club bangers and ballads.

— Allison Stewart

Hudson’s voice induces goose bumps,and she knows how to use it. The duet withfellow “Idol” alum Fantasia (on the diva cagematch “I’m His Only Woman”) is an inspired bitof casting.

“But if I’m just love’s prisoner / Then I’mbusting out”

— “Spotlight”

The onetime “American Idol”finalist and Oscar winnerreleases her debut CD.

A-It’s a little longer than it needs to be, and theobligatory I-am-irritated-by-my-fame track, “My Life Your Entertainment,” is not asympathy-grabber.

— A.S.

It’s a dark, deeply personal, entirely soliddisc with the strongest lyrics of T.I.’scareer. The collaboration with JustinTimberlake, “Dead and Gone,” is one ofthe year’s best tracks.

“You let the blog sites and themagazines tell it / I’m sure tobe in jail till 2027”

— “No Matter What”

This long-anticipated, much-leaked offering isT.I.’s last before getting sent off to the bighouse on federal weapons charges.

Paper TrailT.I.Grand Hustle/Atlantic$18.98

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Prince of PersiaBy Jordan Mechner,A.B. Sina, LeUyenPham and Alex PuvillandFirst Second$16.95

B-Hard to follow at first, this illustrated adventuredoesn’t connect to any of the Prince’s digital

personas, so curious gamers might feel a bitunderwhelmed.

— Evan Narcisse

The volume puts the action of the games in aframework of political and propheticconsequences, adding a surprising amount ofpoetic depth and emotional complexity.

“There are two kinds of warriors:those who destroy and loot andthose who destroy and rebuild.”

— One of the princesreflects on history

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Segel, who wrote the script, is asympathetic leading man who isn’tafraid to bare his soul or genitalsfor a laugh. The disc is incrediblyfan-friendly, loaded with far moreextras than any fairly amusing filmdeserves.

“How you served five years under her, I don’tknow. You deserve a medal, or a holiday, or atleast a cuddle from somebody.”

— Aldous (Brand) commiserateswith Peter (Segel)

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Those who loathe the third-actpunch-arounds familiar to all

superhero films will find littlesolace here. It is pretty

great punching, though.— G.Z.

Downey nails Stark’s mix ofinsouciance and brilliance, andthe special features delve deeplyinto the history of the characterand the making of the film.

“This isn’t a game. You do not send civilianequipment into an active war zone. Do youunderstand me? Do you understand that?”“It’s not a piece of equipment. It’s a suit. It’s me!”

— Rhodey (Terrence Howard) and Tony debatethe merits of battle tech in mid-flight

After being captured by MiddleEastern baddies, billionaire playboy industrialistTony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) builds a suit thattransforms him into the titular Marvelsuperhero.

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Zoo HospitalWiiRated EveryoneMajesco$29.99

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Chapter 3, in which you need to stop a virusoutbreak by treating every animal in the zoo inexactly the same way, is so repetitive you maywish you could inject yourself with something tomake the time pass more quickly.

— Christopher Healy

As the zoo’s new vet, you engagein an array of mini-games(stitching wounds, administeringinjections, plucking parasites, etc.)to save the animals and restorethe zoo’s five-star rating.

An evil land baron tries to sabotage a zoo bydisguising himself as an animal importer andoverloading the zoo’s habitats with sickly,dying wildlife. Now that’s creative villainy.

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The Lucky OneBy NicholasSparksGrand Central$24.99 «

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The puppet show finale shouldbe hilarious but is really justkind of lame.

— Greg Zinman

Iron Man: Ultimate 2-Disc EditionRated PG-13Paramount$39.99

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In this Judd Apatow-producedrom-com, a musician (Jason Segel)decides to take a Hawaiian vacationto get over a breakup, only to findhis famous-actress ex (Kristen Bell)at the same hotel with a Britishrock star (Russell Brand).

ForgettingSarah Marshall:Collector’s EditionNot ratedUniversal$34.98

Mechner, originator of the hit videogame series Prince of Persia, teams withan Iranian poet for a graphic novel. Ittells the tale of two princes born fourcenturies apart in ancient Persia whomust battle invading and internal threatsto find their fate.

The game should appeal to (non-squeamish)kids, for whom half the joy will be seeing thenewly revived creatures frolickingrealistically.

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