Sunday, August 15, 2010
Await Your Reply and AgroDolce Caponata
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Sag Harbor and Ice Cream in Waffle Cone
So this will be a kind of throwaway post, I apologize in advance. I felt kind of blah about the book, blah about the dish, and obviously, could not get a clear photo of the ice cream! So let's just speed through this so we can move on to the next post! The month of August will be crazy for as I am moving, but I promise to be back in tip top form come fall, in a new kitchen and hopefully with better photo skills! Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor is a coming of age tale about a middle class African-American teenager whose family spends their summers in Sag Harbor, Long Island. The book takes place smack in the middle of the 80's, and the main character Benji spends the summer of his freshman year of high school working at an ice cream shop - that classic 80's ice cream shop where waffle cones and mix ins were huge. This is about the time when the ice cream world started moving away from classics like butter pecan and rum raisin and instead started smooshing gummy bears into ice cream. The book was OK, amusing at times but a bit slow. I struggled a tad to get through it. Ice cream was the obvious choice. I will explain after the jump why this recipe didn't turn out as I would have liked...