What Does Swan Taste Like?
The Painted Truffle creates a sweet ode to Swan Lake’s Odette and Odile
Philadelphia Magazine (September 2005)

On the stage at the Academy of Music this month, the Pennsylvania Ballet tells the story of innocent Princess
Odette, the dastardly sorcerer Von Rothbart, and his daughter, the devious Odile, in pliés and pirouettes. But in the North Wales studio of the Painted Truffle, Swan Lake is choreographed in chocolate...[ read more ]

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Sciascia and the Chocolate Factory
The artisanal work of The Painted Truffle is no trifle.
Philadelphia City Paper (August 2005)

Sometimes art comes in big doses: the first time in a room with a wealth of Jackson Pollocks, the sweatiness from an initial screening of Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, seeing Bowie take to Ziggy with fey glittery zeal.

Sometimes art is bite-sized.

It may seem odd to compare local chocolatier Tom Sciascia to Pollock, Herzog or Bowie. But tasting "Al Cappuccino" — one of 28 flavors of handmade artisanal chocolate he and his one-man company, The Painted Truffle, makes — is a sunburst of flavor and experience akin to Chuck Close's circling pools of paint and energy. Eating one of Sciascia's truffles is, in Willy Wonka-speak, the golden ticket...[ read more ]

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Love's the (Second) Sweetest Thing
BUCKS Magazine (January/February 2004)

For up-and-coming Bucks County chocolatier Tom Sciascia, giving rich, creamy confections to loved ones just seems natural. “I grew up in an Italian family, and my mother and my grandparents were all amazing cooks. We were surrounded by food and we were an incredibly close-knit family,” Sciascia explains. “So food, to me, meant love and family.”

In the past year, this passion for food translated into a burgeoning business for Sciascia, a graphic designer and painter who has now turned his creativity toward the artisan candies he crafts for his nascent company, The Painted Truffle...[ read more ]

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Recent Contest Helps The Painted Truffle Deliver the Comfort of Home in Hazelnuts & Chocolate
Hazelnut Council (July 25, 2004)

For up-and-coming Bucks County chocolatier Tom Sciascia, giving rich, creamy confections to loved ones just seems natural. “I grew up in an Italian family, and my mother and my grandparents were all amazing cooks. We were surrounded by food and we were an incredibly close-knit family,” Sciascia explains. “So food, to me, meant love and family.”

In the past year, this passion for food translated into a burgeoning business for Sciascia, a graphic designer and painter who has now turned his creativity toward the artisan candies he crafts for his nascent company, The Painted Truffle...[ read more ]

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