TIP OF THE DAY: Make Easy Fruit Sorbet

With all the luscious fruit coming into season, it’s time to make easy fruit sorbet. You don’t even need an ice cream maker. You can make granita in a plastic container or the bottom of a metal ice cube tray. Unlike ice cream and frozen yogurt, sorbet is dairy-free, fat-free, cholesterol-free, vegan and free of…
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PRODUCT: TCBY’s New Healthy Frozen Yogurt

Some 35 years ago, TCBY, The Country’s Best Yogurt, launched Fro-Yo: a soft serve, ice cream-style frozen yogurt that tasted more like soft serve ice cream. It was targeted to the many people who didn’t like the tartness of the original frozen yogurt products.* *The first frozen yogurt, soft serve Frogurt, was introduced in New…
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TREND: Popbar Custom Ice Cream Pops

Our favorite: pistachio gelato dipped indark chocolate and rolled in crushedpistachios. Photo courtesy Popbar.   Food on a stick is fun. Ice cream pops were a favorite treat of our childhood. So we’re happy that a Popbar opened in our town, serving gelato, frozen yogurt or sorbet on a stick. An idea imported from Italy,…
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FOOD VIDEO: How To Choose Healthier Ice Cream

  America has been convinced that it needs superpremium ice cream: higher milkfat (butterfat) and lower overrun (less air). That’s the equivalent of saying that we need heavy cream in our coffee, when most of us do quite well with fat-free, lowfat or whole milk. If you only eat ice cream occasionally, this shouldn’t be…
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