Latest Ice cream Stories
UTICA, Ohio, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Velvet Ice Cream has launched three new flavors, including a Chocolate Chip Cookie and Cookie Dough Ice Cream in partnership with Max & Erma's Restaurants. The other new flavors are Chocolate Lovers Trio and Chocolate Covered Strawberries, which was the creation of 10-year-old Rachel Hankinson, winner of Velvet's 2008 Create-A-Flavor competition. The teaming with Max & Erma's combines Central Ohio's most famous ice cream manufacturer with...
President Barack Obama and his two daughters enjoyed an ice cream outing in Alexandria, Va., taking home puppy pops for the first dog. Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha, and their security detail Saturday visited The Dairy Godmother, an ice cream parlor in the Del Ray section of Alexandria. Malia had a waffle cone of vanilla custard, Sasha a cup of vanilla custard and the president a cup of vanilla custard with hot fudge and toasted almonds, a clerk at the store told the White House pool...
OAKLAND, Calif., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream products are NOT impacted by the recall of Nestle(R) TOLL HOUSE(R) refrigerated cookie dough products announced today. None of the brands manufactured by Dreyer's, including Edy's(R) and Nestle(R) branded ice cream and frozen dessert/snack products sold through retail and foodservice outlets, are involved. These products are safe to consume. Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes a full...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Gourmet ice cream on a budget? Yes, this is a tempting scoop for screaming taste buds, and not your typical ice cream. But Emperor Nero of Rome, credited with creating the first frozen dessert, would be pleased. The chefs of Kitchen Table Cooking School have entered the $11 billion retail ice cream industry with their unique gastronomic gifts: all natural, handmade, low fat, healthy fresh flavorful treats fit for a king or queen including...
Police say they are looking for an unidentified woman who stole $20 from a 12-year-old as the child was trying to buy ice cream in Deerfield, Ill. Police said the female suspect, thought to be in her 40s, took the girl's money at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store, before fleeing the scene with three young children, The Chicago Tribune reported Friday. The woman, who police suspect is a regular customer of the store, took the $20 from a store counter after distracting the girl. The woman...
Top Chef Season Five Contestants Fabio Viviani, Carla Hall and Jeff McInnis Create Signature Sundaes ATLANTA, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Marble Slab Creamery is reconnecting with its chef-driven roots this summer with the help of Season Five's Top Chef contestants, Fabio Viviani, Carla Hall and Jeff McInnis. Each chef is creating a gourmet ice cream sundae to kick-off the summer. The Celebrity Sundaes program is a part of Marble Slab Creamery's rebranding initiative. The brand is...
Residents of two New York neighborhoods are demanding an end to the constant music played by ice cream trucks circling a nearby park. Some residents of the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods in the city's Brooklyn borough have posted signs and started Internet groups aimed at silencing the Mister Softee trucks after their complaints went unanswered by the city, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The residents said the trucks circumvent a city ordinance banning ice cream trucks from...
English ice cream maker Frank Frederick says he is reviving his Italian family's 100-year-old gelato brand and has hired an opera tenor to keep the cows happy. Italian tenor Marcello Bedoni flew to Lancashire to serenade a field of Friesian cows at Cockshotts Farm with such tunes as Amore ti vieta by Giordano and E lucevan le stelle by Puccini. The cows are such gentle beasts and have a good ear for opera, Bedoni told the Daily Telegraph. I have put together a special repertoire for my...
40 Local Organizations will display their work at the Children First Ice Cream Social MINNEAPOLIS, May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Forty paintings created by 40 organizations will be displayed at the Children First Ice Cream Social on Sunday, May 17 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at Wolfe Park in St. Louis Park. The 40 paintings each represent one of the Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets that are the basis for Children First. The 40 developmental assets are character-building traits all...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayfield Dairy Farms announced today that it is voluntarily recalling 1.5-quart containers of Mayfield Homemade Vanilla Select Ice Cream with a code date of 03/17/10 and a Universal Product Code (UPC) number of 75243 20148. The recall was initiated because the affected product may have been contaminated with ammonia, which may cause headache, nausea, vomiting and irritation of the throat. No other code dates or Mayfield Dairy Farms products are...
