nice cream! (link)
05.27.09 - ny post - by carla spartos

it's almost the summertime, which means it's time to shed those extra pounds so you can fit into that super sexy swimsuit. on a related note, it's also almost ice cream season. for us new yorkers, ice cream season provides the opportunity to say "screw you neapolitan!" and try out some TOTALLY CRAZY ice cream flavors. it's new york though, which means there are thousands of places around the city to get ice cream & if you're like me, having to make choices about anything, let alone ice cream, is a daunting task.

luckily, the ny post has again come to the rescue. yesterday, nestled between all their other totally ground-breaking, objective coverage (i.e.--this gem on the pedestrianizing of times sq), was a little piece by carla spartos, a piece that narrows your crazy ice cream choices down to a manageable, count-em-on-your-fingers-if-you-still-have-them-all list of ten locales...you can count to ten, right?

on the list, there are places where you can get such tantalizing gelato flavors as red bull, olive oil, sweet corn & pine needle-redolent mastic (whatever the hell that is).  it features places with ice creams made with pandan leaf, taro & candies such as fireballs, twizzlers & gummi bears. for all you alcoholics out there, there are two locations--cones & DBGB (opening in june)--that serve, respectively, kumquats with johnny walker black label gelato & a cherry ice cream made with belgian beer. unfortunately for brooklynites, the list contains only one place to get crazy ice cream--jacques torres ice cream--which opens up in DUMBO this weekend.

try them all! i give you permission to...& when you put on all that extra ice cream-induced weight, you can just visit one of the post's sponsored "flat belly" ads which, depending on the whims of their ad server, should be conveniently located at the bottom of article.