A worldwide guide to ice cream destinations, a collection of stories, and inspired recipes based on 60 ice cream shops across eight countries. From California to Taiwan to Argentina to Italy. Jennifer Ng, a lifelong ice cream lover, chronicles visits to a dairy plant, the island where ice cream supposedly originated, and conversations with ice cream makers. She meets former pastry chefs, Gelato University students, and fellow ice cream lovers. Jennifer seeks to answer the question: why is ice cream so special for so many of us?

Have you ever wondered what wine to pair with that scoop of ice cream? Master baker and chef Jan Hedh answers every ice cream–related question you never knew you had in The Ultimate Guide to Homemade Ice Cream. This cookbook contains both basic and complex recipes for cold, creamy treats with flavors ranging from sweet to savory, including mango, avocado, truffle, asparagus, and mint chocolate chip. In addition, Hedh provides recipes for parfaits, semifreddo, cheesecake, and ice cream soufflé. Hedh goes beyond the usual scoop by offering creative ideas for decorating desserts, having fun with sugar art, and even carving your own ice sculpture.

This comprehensive bible of frozen desserts includes recipes for ice cream, sorbet, gelati, and granita, along with a history of ice cream making. World-renowned frozen dessert experts Caroline and Robin Weir have spent more than twenty years passionately pursuing everything ice cream. After tracing ice cream’s evolution from Asia, the Middle East, France, Italy, and America, studying its chemistry as well as its history, this husband and wife food writing team offer a comprehensive cookbook including four hundred recipes and tips for making ice cream, both with and without a machine. With insightful commentary, historical context, and mouthwatering photographs, this definitive cookbook covers the classics, with recipes for chocolate and vanilla bean ice cream, as well as frozen adventures such as green tea ice cream, chocolate brownie ice cream, tequila granita, and basil-flavored lemon sorbet. You’ll find the perfect flavor for every occasion, as well as all the traditional ice cream sides—such as oven-baked wafer cones, crisp almond cookies, and decadent butterscotch and chocolate fudge sauces. An indispensible guide for home chefs and frozen dessert aficionados, Ice Creams, Sorbets & Gelati is “a modern classic for ice cream lovers” (Italia Magazine). “There’s nothing more cooling on a warm day than a sophisticated sorbet or glamourous granita. Turn ice into a stylish treat, with these fabulous recipes.” —Vegan Living “Everything you ever wanted to know about frozen desserts but didn’t know where to turn. . . . A guide of Biblical proportions with recipes for everything you could possibly want in [the frozen dessert] category.” —The Irish Daily Mail

Even with the proliferation of brand-name ice creams and ice cream shop chains and the availability of numerous flavours, homemade ice cream remains as popular as ever. You have only to look at the variety of home ice cream machines and the number of companies manufacturing them to see it. Homemade ice cream has a special taste that you can't buy, and it is a family activity and summer tradition in many homes. But homemade ice cream isn't as simple as it seems for the novice, and even families that have been making it for years look for new recipes and ideas to challenge their skills and their palates. In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homemade Ice Cream, readers will find: *More than 200 recipes, ranging from the simple to the sublime *Step-by-step instructions for making ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and gelato *Topping and serving recipes and ideas *Recipes and instructions for ice cream-based and other frozen drinks

Make Ice Cream From the Best Creameries in the Country In the Comfort of Your Own Kitchen! What if you could have the greatest ice cream flavors from any of the 50 states in your kitchen? With Scoop Adventures by Lindsay Clendaniel, you'll have the recipes from the best shops in New York, Maryland, Illinois, Hawaii and everywhere in between. Lindsay Clendaniel, creator of Scoop Adventures, has found the best creameries from across the country and adapted their authentic recipes so you can make them in your own ice cream maker for your friends and family. These easy and delicious recipes include: Chipotle Raspberry Nebraska Sweet Corn Banana Pudding Rosemary Honey Walnut Prickly Pear Coconut Red Velvet Lavender Caramel Swirl Pumpkin Ale Apple Butter Rummy Pecan With over 80 recipes from all over the US, tried and tested for your kitchen, there is sure to be a flavor for every mood and every taste preference. With the stories behind the flavors, colorful photos of the shops and most importantly, tasty and one-of-a-kind recipes, you'll have everything you need to scoop your way across America's best flavors.

This volume is at once an all-inclusive guide to the meaning of hundreds of technical terms and ideas needed for ice cream manufacturing, as well as a practical introduction to the ingredients, freezing methods, flavoring, and packaging of ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, gelato, frozen yogurts, nov- elties and many other kinds of frozen desserts. In dozens of longer entries and short essays, as well as with original quantitative tables and graphs, the authors explain the chemistry and controllable variables of all phases of ice cream production, e.g., dairy and non-dairy ingredients, crystallization, overrun, equipment, coloring, test and tasting protocols and much more. With its helpful system of cross-referencing, the book offers step-by-step details on what must be done to create high-quality, successful products - with pointers on how to avoid dozens of specific defects that can occur during manufacturing, such as icy texture and sandiness. The authors also offer original information for ex- tending product lines and creating new (e.g., health-oriented and hybrid) products.