“Peanut butter and jelly” chocolate handcrafted by a Midwestern bean to bar chocolatier Founded in 2006 by Alan “Patric” McClure, Patric chocolate has put the Midwest on the premium confection map. The brand, born from the founder’s deep love of chocolate and an influential trip to France, offers a variety of delicious craft-made bars. A leader in the artisanal/micro-batch chocolate community, McClure has been involved with the Craft Chocolate Makers of America since its start and is currently serving as its chairperson. Our appreciation of American craft chocolate makers—from the Mast Brothers to Rogue to fellow Missouri-based Askinosie is well documented. Patric currently offers eight chocolate bars—both blends and single origin, with standouts like the signature 70% blend helping put the brand on the gourmand map. Last year’s introduction of the PBJ OMG—dark roasted peanut butter and cacao balanced with natural bursts of berry from the chocolate—manages to pull off the salty-fruity appeal of the classic sandwich in a melt-in-your-mouth form. Marketed for ages “1-120,” this bar truly offers something for just about every palate. The line sells from Patric’s online store and select retailers (though the PBJ OMG only for a limited time) starting at $7.

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First, the terrible storm hitting the Midwest this week caused travel nightmares for those making the pilgrimage to Sunday Super Bowl in Dallas, and now this. Seven people were injured-one is in critical condition-when accumulated ice fell 200 feet…

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Falling Ice at Dallas Stadium Hurts Seven

Maybe that ticket insurance was worth it after all. The massive storm that pounded the Midwest this week is causing travel nightmares for airlines and football fans trying to get to Dallas for Super Bowl XLV. More than 1,000 flights to Dallas-Fort…

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Fans Race Ice to Get to Super Bowl

The Midwest isn’t the only part of the world getting some extreme weather: On Tuesday, Australians began preparing for a storm of “catastrophic proportions.” Cyclone Yasi, a Category 5 storm, is forecast to hit Queensland late Wednesday, and tens of…

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Australians Flee ‘Catastrophic’ Cyclone

Chicago was under a blizzard watch late Sunday as portions of the Midwest and Northeast braced for a major storm system that will bring bitter cold and a “long duration” of snow, according to forecasters.

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Winter storm could break records

Starkness and human isolation lurk beneath the Norman Rockwell contours of Charles Baxter’s Midwest stories.

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Charles Baxter’s Midwest

Several states are still on tornado watch on Saturday, after a terrible system of storms ripped through the Midwest and killed six people yesterday. Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana are all on the lookout for twisters today. In Alabama, the same…

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Midwest Tornadoes Trigger Floods

A storm system that trapped cars in snow in parts of the Midwest and sent below-freezing weather deep into the South has moved into Canada, but the United States will continue to feel some of its effects in the form of rain, snow or frigid temperatures.

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Bitter cold lingers after storm moves on

The Midwest snowstorm showed no sign of weakening overnight, leaving eight states to brace themselves for blizzard conditions. Twenty inches of snow had already blanketed parts of the region on Saturday, wreaking havoc on the roads. Blizzard warnings…

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Midwest Storm Engulfs Eight States

COLUMBUS, OHIO – On Oct. 6, 2006, Senate candidate Sherrod Brown stood before a crowd of Ohio State University students and predicted the political upheaval that was about to take place.

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Hard times in Midwest endanger Democrats

A bizarre, rare combination of rain, extreme winds, and snow is making its way east from the Midwest. It has been compared to a Category 3 hurricane and caused damage to homes, cars, and property as it passed over 31 states. Meteorologists say the…

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Huge Wind Storm Hits Midwest

Torrential rain and thunderstorms in the Midwest are shaping up to the be the region’s second-worst on record and have cut power to thousands of people in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Travelers have been especially hard-hit, with hundreds of…

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Midwest Storm Punishes Travelers

Severe warnings issued as storm batters Midwest

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Ferocious storms hit Midwest

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested nearly 400 illegal immigrants — including 347 with prior criminal convictions — over a three-day operation throughout the Midwest, the agency announced Friday.

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370 illegal immigrants arrested in U.S.

The national debt is bad for the military, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen is telling business men and women and others on a three-day “Conversations with the Country” tour across the Midwest.

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Mullen: Debt is top security threat