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Brooklyn: Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Shop Opens Today

Ice cream in this miasma of slush and snow?  If it’s Van Leeuwen’s luscious frozen treats, yes!  Even if you have to schlep to Brooklyn.  Get on the train and make a beeline for their new store.
Let’s face it, what else will cheer you up like an excursion to an ice cream shop on a [...]

Upper West Side: Kosher Israeli Gelato Screme Hits the Hood

Five-thousand flavors of gelato?!  The mind boggles. But that’s what kosher Israeli gelato purveyor Screme is offering ice cream lovers on New York’s Upper West Side.
Ice cream is one of those universal foods. It literally melts across borders. You can find Italian gelato in India and Berlin.  You can it find it in the LI [...]

Ice Cream Event at New York’s Astor Center Slated for Sept. 1

I scream, you scream.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, who doesn’t love ice cream? In fact, I love it so much, I have a book coming out next year on the history of ice cream around the world.
Meanwhile, if you want to get your licks in on this delicious subject, come hear Jeri Quinzio talk about [...]

Corn Dinner, Dessert: Sweet Corn Ice Cream

Claudia Fleming is one of America’s great pastry chefs. These days, you can find the former Gramercy Tavern pastry chef and her luscious desserts at the North Fork Table and Inn in Southold on Long Island’s North Fork.
If you missed the other courses for the all corn dinner, here they are:
Drinks Snack: All Corn [...]

North Fork, LI: Magic Fountain’s Divine Rum Raisin Ice Cream

Rum on the North Fork where wine is king? Well, not exactly.
But if you need an ice cream break while trawling the vineyards, stop by the Magic Fountain in Mattituck, Long Island and get yourself a scoop of the shop’s delicious rum raisin ice cream.
The Magic Fountain has perched on Route 25 (locally known as [...]