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 […]
Ice cream around the world (and at home)
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]