Author Archives: Maria Grace

Cheese and Meat Ice Creams–seriously!

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Having already visited bread ice creams, it only seems appropriate to peek in on breads’ greatest companions, cheese and meat. Yes, you read that correctly, meat and cheese ice creams. Don’t turn the page just yet. You wouldn’t want to miss the Iron Chef connection to more than one of these ice creams. Iced cheese Iced cheese is a little confusing as it seems to refer to two distinctly different concoctions. Some of these appear to be rich ice … Continue reading →

Tea and Biscuit Ice Creams

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How about tea time in an ice cream: tea and biscuit ice creams. Tea time brings images of hot beverages, tiny sandwiches, dainty cookies and an air of elegant refinement. What about turning all of that into ice cream flavors? Ok, you can stop looking at me funny. It really isn’t that much of a stretch, well at least not all of it. Come take a peek. Tea and Coffee First up, let’s put the … Continue reading →

Flower Ice Creams

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In Jane Austen’s day, vanilla wasn’t a common flavor, flower ice cream  flavors were. When we think of common ice cream flavors today, our minds usually go to vanilla. Back in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, vanilla (which is the fruit of the vanilla orchid—but you probably already knew that…) was pretty uncommon. Far more common flavors were floral ones, including jasmine, orange flower, violet, elder flowers and rose. (Quinzio, 2002) The flavors do sound … Continue reading →

Hokey Pokey

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What does hokey pokey have to do with ice cream? The answer’s at the end of the research rabbit hole! Time for a quick trip down the research rabbit hole. You didn’t think I could possibly get through a series like this without a few bunny trails, did you? I did have over 200 pages of research notes for this project after all. (Yeah, seriously I did. I know, but graduate school did this to … Continue reading →