Ice Cream Lovers Dream Job

News EditorIce Cream

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

News EditorDairy Business, Ice Cream, Industry News

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

News EditorButter, Cheese, Ice Cream, Industry News, Products

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

News EditorIce Cream, Media

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

News EditorIce Cream, International

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

News EditorIce Cream, Media

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

Chuck ZimmermanIce Cream, Milk, Promotion

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

News EditorIce Cream, International

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

News EditorIce Cream, Industry News

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

News EditorIce Cream

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