Ice cream around the world (and at home)

Month: June 2017

Cereal Milk Ice Cream

Cereal Milk Ice Cream

The morning of a flight from New York several years ago, I visited the Momofuku Milk Bar for my first time. The prior night, my sister and I had visited the Milk Bar at a ridiculous hour of 10 pm. Of course, to our naive […]

Watermelon Mint with Tequila Sorbet

Watermelon Mint with Tequila Sorbet

“Ok, we can slice it up!” I said, eyeing the two halves of the watermelon. “No!” he declared. “I show you!” As we started the movie, he placed one half of the watermelon on a single plate with a spoon. He held the spoon downward […]

Carrot Ginger Ice Cream

Carrot Ginger Ice Cream

When I was in Berlin, my local friends took me to a Vietnamese restaurant in Mitte. There was the standard Westernized Vietnamese food…but it was the tea that gripped me in delight. Somehow I had missed this kind of tea in Vietnam. There were three […]

Strawberry Candied Jalapeño Ice Cream

Strawberry Candied Jalapeño Ice Cream

Like many of us, I have an inherent love of strawberries. Particularly the kind that’s bursting with childlike juicy flavor. A strawberry drink? I am there. A dessert laced with strawberries? Oh yes. A patch of strawberries for the picking? Sorry, it’s going to be […]

Basil Ice Cream

Basil Ice Cream

“Strawberry basil or basil?” I asked my friend. “My first ice cream flavor.” “Basil,” he answered matter-of-factly. But it wasn’t only that response that made me choose basil. Due to my childhood picky self, I never discovered basil until I was in my mid-twenties. It […]

I love eating ice cream.  Even if it’s not mine.

I love eating ice cream.  Even if it’s not mine.

To start, this is evidence of how much my love of ice cream reigned in my childhood. (I am the older one.) So starts the fascination of ice cream. Over the years, I always chose the ice cream (or sorbet if I was feeling too […]