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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TIP OF THE DAY: Grapefruit Sorbet Or Granita

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you grapefruit, you can squeeze some terrific grapefruit juice. Or, you can go glam with grapefruit sorbet, one of our passions. You don’t even need a sorbet maker. These two recipes are for grapefruit granita—a “crunchy” sorbet. All you need to do is sweeten fresh-squeezed…
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FOOD VIDEO: How To Choose Healthy Snacks

  If you’re one of the millions of people who have just made a New Year’s resolution to pursue better food choices, here’s an “inspirational” video. It shows some simple, portion-controlled snack ideas that let you treat yourself without going overboard. Whether you have a sweet tooth or prefer savory flavors—and there’s no reason you…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ice Cream Cupcakes

Create a fun and easy party dessert, a variation on the ice cream cupcake. All you need are cupcake liners, a muffin tin, chocolate wafer cookies, a quart of your favorite ice cream (we like a pint each of chocolate chip or mint chocolate chip, but any flavor is delicious) plus the chocolate whipped cream…
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