Ice creams built from the ground up with superlative ingredients.
Our second shop in Chicago is just off the Blue Line at the Damen stop. Have a seat and enjoy a scoop and some hometown Intelligentsia Coffee. Or, get a cone or pint to go and stroll the historic neighborhood, which includes great indie book and record shops, the Double Door rock club (see High Fidelity), and restaurants/bars doing it right (Xoco, Bangers & Lace, Milk & Honey Cafe, Big Star, et al.).
Believe it or not, every single day when I wake up, I think about ice cream, I come in to work and we make and eat ice cream every single day. I'm Jenny Britton Bauer from Jenny'splendid Ice Creams and my new book is called Jenny'splendid Desserts. It's about 30 new ice cream recipes and a whole bunch of other things that go with ice creams. There's cakes and pies and empanadas and sundaes. What I love about ice cream is that it accessorizes a dessert and it can change the conversation since it says one thing, something And so you can choose ice cream to accompany your dessert and that creates the sort of conversation at the table. Nothing hides in ice cream, so the ingredients that you start with are the flavors that you end up with. Blackberries and strawberries and black raspberries and blueberries and often will add gravels to that equation and that adds kind of a crunchy, salty element to a dessert. My perfect Sunday is composed of different flavors, textures and temperatures. So a warm sauce, a crunchy gravel, creamy frozen ice cream and then of course whipped cream. If you create a Sunday, give it a name. Something So Jenny Splendid Desserts is an extension of my first book and then more. What you make with the book will be different from what somebody else makes with the book, will be different from what I would make with the book. I want to give the reader the keys to the kingdom. As long as you've kind of got the body and the texture and the right ingredients in the ice cream, it's going to beautiful and you'll never make the same dessert twice. I mean we're trying to allow readers to tell their own stories through ice cream and if your ice cream machine is now sitting in your basement gathering dust, I say to you, go downstairs and get that thing out. Fire it up because it's going to work this time. Oh I have eaten so much ice cream in my lifetime, more ice cream than probably any other h