Mark Lewis, the founder of Marco Paolo Chocolates, produces boxes of double-layered truffles with exotic flavor combinations—think white chocolate and coconut ganache paired with cilantro and a dark chocolate and lime ganache, or pomegranate and white chocolate ganache married with dark chocolate and an aged balsamic reduction. “The primary challenge in a double-layered truffle has been finding combinations of flavors that work,” he explains. “The two layers have to be complementary yet contrasting flavors and…

Mercedes-Benz captivated the entire automotive world when it first announced the return of the iconic gullwing—in the form of the SLS AMG—at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in 2009. Now, five years later, the gullwing is out of production (the 2015 SLS AMG GT Final Edition is the models’ swan song) and the German automaker is ready to follow it up with an all-new range-topping sports car, the Mercedes-AMG GT. At first look, it seems that the designers at AMG simply made a smaller, more powerful, wing-clipped ver…

Sam Pack’s assemblage of automobiles could fill a municipal garage. But even Dallas collectors have to downsize sometime.

A light mist falls from low gray clouds, but inside Sam Pack’s private car museum in Dallas, it is as bright as if the sun blazed above. Mustangs, Bel Airs, Thunderbirds, Cobras, and dozens more shine under the overhead lights. A man feather-dusts them, though there is not a speck of dirt in the place.

Pack, a Dallas-area Ford dealer, has a staggering personal collection of cars: 500 …