Ample Hills Creamery Inc. is known around New York for its indulgent, over-the-top ice creams such as Salted Crack Caramel and Chocolate 3 Ways. Around the country, it’s recognized as the official ice cream of the Star Wars film franchise, and whose limited-edition Dark Side and Light Side flavors, released in conjunction with The Force Awakens, sold 40,000 pints online.
Read MoreIt’s hard to imagine ice cream could get one iota better, but Nicholas Morgenstern has found the one iota. Morgenstern, the former pastry chef responsible for the hot little self-named ice cream parlor in the Lower East Side, has just launched a weekly pop-up of limited-edition ice cream flavors.
When I walk down the cereal aisle of my grocery store, I see a breadth of options that are overwhelming. Baristas at my local coffee shop inquire whether I’d like my coffee brewed using a Chemex, French press, or siphon pot. To continue this hyper-granular thread, my new corner ice cream shop––yes, it’s in Manhattan––offers four flavors of chocolate ice cream.
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