Tosci's!!!!
Toscanini's, our beloved Cambridge ice cream and coffee shop, is in the news! ...For being closed down by the state for owing almost $170,000 in back taxes. Whoops! Punks. But oh man, their ice cream is just one of those marvels of the food world. The texture is thick, almost elastic, and the flavors* rock.
B remembers well goading me on about their coffee ice cream sandwich flavor - milky coffee ice cream studded with chunks of ice cream sandwich - about how delicious it is, and how much I wish I had some right now, and isn't it sooooo good?, until I snapped and socked him in the arm. Pretty sure I'd do it again.
Anyway, Tosci's is so well-loved that their customers donated $30,000, I kid you not, over the course of a week, enabling them to pay off some of their debt and reopen. Madness!!
*lemon basil... nocciola... coffee ice cream sandwich... grapenuts... pink grapefruit sorbet... burnt caramel (which earned a paean in The Atlantic)... chocolate sluggo (remember that, Paula?)... etc. etc., plus other "special" backroom flavors involving hazelnut and assorted herbs, alas not for sale.
posted by p @ 3:35 PM
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Punching Brian?!? What a surly girl!! That made me laugh my ass off, and I had to read it aloud to Joe. Anyway, I will have to try making some of those interesting flavors with my ice cream maker. I already made a dark chocolate sorbet which is soooo chocolately and dark, yet it is made only with milk and no eggs. Maybe I'll try the burnt caramel recipe sometime, too. Too bad your not here to enjoy my delicious creations, yummy.... OUCH, don't hit! ;)
surly -- you don't know the half of it. did i ever tell you about the time in college i told p i'd never had a fried egg before, and she was so outraged that she just pounded me?
He'd only ever had scrambled eggs - can you believe that??
Oh, I remember that! But I also remember you laughing until you couldn't breath, B, so you can't really call it a "pounding."
(no offense, P)
Sluggo, ha ha.
My favorite was hot coffee with a scoop of burnt caramel ice cream on top. mmmmmmm
Hi P & B,
I remember when you kids took Dave and myself there one time during our visit to MIT. I think i had the black raspberry and Dave had the pistachio. It WAS yummy!
I did not know that Tosci's was open to suggestions for making new flavors.
I have a great recipe for an almond and saffron ice cream that I would have shared with Tosci's.
mmmmmmmmm- Tosci's ice cream!
Have to visit Cambridge, sometime.
M
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