October 12, 2006 Best Nashville-Made Sweet Food Product For Retail Distribution: Nashville Toffee Company Attention food distributors: if you are sending product for sampling to the Nashville Scene, please include enough to feed 75 to 100; when it comes to edible deliveries, staffers are like buzzards on road kill. It’s not pretty. Only because I dropped by the Scene’s Eighth Avenue South headquarters within seconds of a drop-off by a representative of the Nashville Toffee Company did the small package of Dark Almond Chocolate Toffee make it from the front desk to my car. As I was exiting the parking lot, I popped a piece in my mouth, where it melted into a trance-inducing tongue-puddle of sugar, butter, chopped almonds and dark chocolate, tempered by just a hint of saltiness—which is where its evil genius lies. Immediately, I put the car in reverse, grabbed the bag, burst back into the building and took the stairs two at a time to the breakroom, where I left what remained of the toffee on the table and got the hell out of there. An ounce of prevention is worth the pounds I would have added to my hips had I not extricated myself from the vicinity of this slyly irresistible ambrosia. Made by Christina McCoy Cohn from her grandmother and great-grandmother’s recipes, Nashville Toffee is available in dark or milk chocolate, by order, at www.nashvilletoffeecompany.com or at about 30 local retail outlets including Produce Place , Davis -Kidd, Belle Meade Drug Store, Puckett’s Grocery, a kiosk outside Tiffany in the Mall at Green Hills and at TPAC. —KAY WEST