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Let Everyone Eat Strawberries And Ice Cream

8,700 punnets of fresh Spring strawberries and 2,500 litres of ice cream will be sold by New Zealand Hospices around the country in early November. New Zealand hospices in Dunedin, Marlborough, Wellington, Lower Hutt, Paraparaumu, H [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Sweet treats for pumpkin eaters

In addition to traditional pumpkin pie, correspondent Abby Weingarten has found some unique, sugary twists on the classic dish being served at these area eateries:The Savory Street is a fairly new mecca of baked goods so it’s no su [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

What Works: Pierre's Ice Cream

In 1932 ice cream was pretty much vanilla, chocolate and strawberry--mostly vanilla. That was the year Clevelanders first tasted Pierre's French Vanilla ice cream, and it remains a hometown favorite. When Pierre's began, th [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Business profile: Magic Ice Cream

Products/services: Magic Ice Cream uses fresh ingredients to make ice cream instantly in front of customers. Employees start with a cream base and after flavors and other ingredients are mixed in, the cream is cooled quickly using liquid [...]

Posted On : Oct, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Strawberry Ice Cream

There was nothing particularly unusual about it. A group of us had toured a historic site outside the capital. It was a warm, sunny afternoon, and one of the guys in the group decided to buy us some ice cream from the street vendor with [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Get Ready to Make Some Great Ice Cream. At Home

I have been dying to tell you about this for months, and finally. Finally, the time has come. You are going to love me and Jeni from Jeni's Ice Cream forever. Well, even more than you do now. A few months ago, Jeni [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Ice cream wars: Baskin lacks freshness; Cold Stone needs fan...

As the weather gets chillier, popular ice cream chains Baskin-Robbins and Cold Stone Creamery are still trying to attract customers with cold treats and hot desserts. Baskin-Robbins introduced the ice cream chain concept to Korea, while [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2010 | Comments : 1

Nothing will stop the ice cream van appearing at the Crows N...

WHEN Alfio Coco’s wife had to go to hospital to have a baby two days before the Crows Nest Festival, he became worried. What if he missed the annual event? Mr Coco has sold ice cream from his Bar Coco cafe van at the festival [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

At Ice Pan, the next generation of ice cream

Ice Pan is one of those places where several pop culture trends converge and form a genuinely pleasing little confectionary bubble. It is the current endpoint in a rising line of chain ice cream one-upmanship, the place where they not on [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Have you ever made your own ice cream?

Ice cream is something most of us love, right? Well, one local farm makes their own ice cream, and sometimes they put things in the ice cream you'd never think of. Beth Cook of Cook Farm in Hadley make ice cream with some flavors I b [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Making a difference with ice cream

After reading in one of our local newspapers that a Dairy Queen franchise has been given the “reluctant thumbs up” in Whistler near the Celebration Plaza, I was immediately pushed into writing this letter as I thought about t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Ice cream makes wishes come true

Kate's single wish was to create a one-of-a-kind flavor of ice cream. Cold Stone Creamery, in conjunction with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, made it possible for this 11-year-old little girl's wish to come true. The Make-A-Wish Fou [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Melting ice cream in space

Jonathan Woods says: I love the Hubble team's write-up of this image. "Enjoying a frozen treat on a hot summer day can leave a sticky mess as it melts in the Sun and deforms. In the cold vacuum of space, there is no edible ice c [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Pot Ice Cream Joins Gourmet Frozen Dessert Boom

Budding entrepreneurs in Santa Cruz’s medical marijuana business have come up with yet another delivery system for cannabis—pot-laced ice cream. For the more traditionally inclined, there’s TRIPle Chocolate Brownie, but [...]