Haven’t all of us dreamed of a job where we could eat ice cream all day? And if it was Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, all the better! John Shaffer is one of the lucky – he is a “flavor guru” at the famous Vermont ice cream maker, and he recently shared some inside secrets to his fantastic job! After … Read More
Ice Cream Company Plans Expansion
A western New York ice cream company, Perry’s Ice Cream, is planning a $5 million expansion that will allow the company to handle more of its operations on site, reduce its costs and create about five new jobs. Perry’s employs 285 people and expects to raise its total to 290. The company plans to build a 17,500- square-foot cold-storage facility … Read More
WDPA Announces Contest Sponsors
The Wisconsin Dairy Products Association (WDPA) is proud to announce that Dairy Field magazine and Cheese Market News have finalized an agreement with WDPA to become the exclusive sponsors of the Grand Champion Awards for the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest. Cheese Market News will be the annual sponsor of the Grand Champion Award for Cheese and Butter, … Read More
Ben & Jerry's Simpsons Flavor
D’oh! Ben & Jerry’s is bringing a special ice cream to the citzens of Springfield, Vermont for one day only to celebrate the premiere of “The Simpsons.” If any of our readers get a chance to try it, please let us know how it tastes! The town won a recent contest among communities sharing a name with the fictitious home … Read More
Digital Pleasure
This is one of the more interesting stories I’ve run across in awhile. Researchers are digitally mapping the faces of women as they eat foods such as ice cream, and using the computer models to gauge their level of happiness. The company Unilever, is planning to use the technology to help them develop products such as reduced-fat ice cream that … Read More
Ice Cream Journal
In case you’ve forgotten, July is National Ice Cream month, and Turkey Hill Dairy is celebrating by devoting the entire month to its principal product – ice cream! Each day, a new entry will be added to the Ice Cream Journal, and visitors who leave a comment on the blog postings will have the chance to win a free one … Read More
Real Ice Cream MilkQuakes From Krystal
It’s nice to know that Krystal is using real ice cream in their MilkQuakes. If you visit their MySpace page you can get a free one. It’s called the Krystal Lover’s Lounge. You can download a print a coupon for one of their MilkQuakes from the site. Since it’s MySpace it’s a blog and they’ve got posts. It looks like … Read More
Beer Ice Cream
One last ice cream story, this one international. The Windermere Ice Cream Company, based in the UK, has created a beer ice cream using a local beer, the Hawkshead Brewery’s Red Ale. The ice cream received rave reveiws at the beer festival, and will now be available for sale in the company’s shop. Explaining the idea behind the new flavour, … Read More
Vermont Creemees
Ok – pop quiz. What do the people in New England call soft ice cream? Creemees – which I think is a fantastic word. It completely describes the creamy, wonderful texture of soft ice cream. I bring all this up to tell you about this story – the Vermont Milk Company distrubuting a machine that produces a soft ice cream … Read More
Penn State Creamery
One of the highlights to studying on an agricultural campus is the ice cream that is made on-site. Cornell University, LSU and Wisconsin-Madison to name just a few. One of the more well known is the Creamery at Penn State University. This story highlights the career of Tom Palchak, an important key to the Creamery’s success. In 1986, when Tom … Read More