Once you “get” Atomic Ice Cream, you begin to come up with your own wacky flavors and ice cream desserts. Here are two:
Ali’s Flavor is Tornado Swirl. Dirt and Rock swirled with Chocolate Wood. So I guess that would be Newman O’s crumbled into rocks and dirt with milk chocolate branches and a chocolate fudge swirl.
Atom’s Ice Cream Cake is the Tooth Fairy’s House. This is an ice cream cake with white chocolate Teeth, topped with a fence of white chocolate Teeth and a house made out of Newman O’s on top of the cake. I can see this being given to kids who have lost their first tooth.
It was after the Murakami Reading and Discussion at Zellerbach that I decided Mr. Golden, Pirate Seiko, Adam-Is-Smart, and I should all go out for ice cream. I had a rental car, a big American Ford SUV (Yes, horrible I know, what with the energy crisis and the lack of sustainability of petroleum based fuels. But there is something about driving higher up in something big that grants the driver an uniquely American experience — Powerful and Indestructible, despite the myopia. An experience only afforded through the circumstance of the lack of all other economy vehicles on the rental car lot. No one wanted this 6 cylinder beast. And with no other choice, we became friends for a week at the discount rate, and I came to understand this car’s laments of bygone days of infinite fuel and leviathan appetites). So tonight, I wanted to check out Tara’s on Collage Ave.
I first heard about Marianne’s from Yelp (where I get oh so many recommendations for great food experiences). Rave reviews from a vocal and loyal group of Marianne’s Ice Cream fans. I had to check it out. And on a swing down south from San Francisco, Cha Cha and I decided to go after a lovely lunch at the Brasil Cafe.
Atomic is now the designer and producer of St. Germain Sorbet.
St. Germain is a fancy liqueur made from Elderflowers. It tastes floral without being perfumy and there’s notes of lychee. Thoroughly delicious. We make about 2 gallons for St. Germain a week to use in demos and in enticing reticent buyers into reaching for their wallets.
The sorbet is white as snow and as delicate as the liqueur. Very tasty if I do say so myself.
Burger King is introducing an .89, soft-serve cone. Their commercial makes me feel inexplicably sad. Damn you, Burger King! (Accompanied by much fist shaking and discreet tear wiping)
Over this summer I ate some yummy (and not so yummy) ice cream, gelato, and Italian ices around New York, Martha’s Vineyard, and Connecticut. New York gets hot in the summer. Hot and humid. Ice Cream, Gelato, and Italian Ice are very popular. New York is where Richard LaMotta started Chipwhich. Here’s the first field report from the scoop shops and gelaterias I happened upon by chance and by design. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, I missed the Yokohama Aisukurin Hakurankai (Ice Cream Expo) this year. But this is definitely one ice cream event I’ll be attending in the future. Now, you know, Atomic has made its share of palate challenging flavors (Bar Brawl, Burning House, Bad Cold to name a few), but I doubt there are more challenging flavors to western palates than Japanese ice creams. Read the rest of this entry »
Associated Press — PETA wrote a letter to company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday, telling them cow’s milk is hazardous and that milking them is cruel.
“If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers — and cows — would reap the benefits,” wrote Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of the animal rights advocacy group.
Hey, I was messing around today and made these two Atomic Ice Cream postcards. Of course they were for a small catered party to be passed out with some Road Rash and Elderflower Sorbet, but I wasn’t able to finish them in time. Oh well, they got an Atomic Ice Cream sticker.
