Happy National Ice Cream Day! …If you click onto any of the zillion and one “national ice cream day’ links like the one here you’ll find it void of any and all inclusive history…
Lucky ya’ll i have that covered for ya’s. IN MANY WAYS and options:
Have you seen yours truly droppin knowledge in my friend Carla Hall’s “Chasing Flavor ” Ice cream episode yet? … Or listened to all the (hidden) history I laid out in my ‘ origins of ice cream in America podcast episode? OR what I contributed to the Milk Street Radio Summer series episode where I also talk there about the hidden history of the origins of American ice cream with host Christopher Kimball ?…
VANILLA Ice Cream day is just around the corner on the 23rd as is Hot Fudge Sundae Day on the 25th and let’s not forget that July kicked off with Ice Cream FLAVORS Day on the 1st. Why all these Ice Cream Holidays? JULY IS ICE CREAM MONTH. And WHO has all the inclusive true history scoop on the makings of the AMERICAN ICE CREAM Industry as we know it? that ‘s right - me! Yours truly, “TFG “…
That said I’m serving up some BONUS SCOOP for my Patreon Community Members. More specificially: access to a Compilation of Audio & Video REPLAY LINKS to all the many scoops of TFG ice cream content including:
🟡 The “Chasing Flavor with Chef Carla Hall” Ice cream episode streaming on HBO’s MAX where I’m featured in as the Culinary Historian. I’ll be hosting a real time interactive watch party of this episode with my Patreon Peeps THIS MONTH so be sure to sign up to stay in the loop on that scoop (including a replay if it’s already happened by the time you read this
🟣 All the (previously hidden) history I scoop up in my TFG Podcast Episode on the origins of ice cream in America …
🟠 the Milk Street Radio Summer series episode where I serve up the hidden history of the origins of American ice cream to host Christopher Kimball …
🔴 My Culinary History Talk (& Tasting!) At Lefferts Historic House [FULL PRESENTATION REPLAY AVAILABLE FOR PATREON SUPPORTERS ONLY] on how Vanilla Ice Cream and how it serves as an unlikely portal to our sometimes aghast American past"...
Last but not least you might also want to check out the docu film, “James Hemings: Ghost in America’s Kitchen” (yes, yours truly makes a cameo ;)
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FYI TODAY IS Also:
Legal Drinking Age Day [Stay tuned for some cool cocktail-themed content I’m stirring up for later this year in the context of the PROHIBITION ERA when drinking was illegal for EVERYONE. For 14 years…]
IT’S National Junk Food Day [I’m not entirely sure what the common or popular definition of JUNK FOOD is these days but in the past it has often been synonymous with SNACK FOODS which to me is not accurate. In fact between last year’s URTHBOX delivery and this year’s FANCY FOODS show, so many new snack food options on the shelves are now higher quality and healthier than ever before! #highprotein, #lowstarch #allnatural #goodfats …
It’s ALSO:
Racial Harmony Day … Every day is racial harmony day in my world. Well at least that’s what i always intend for it to be…