According to hiddencityphila.org, plans for a freshly rehabbed Frankford-Girard area will see abandoned buildings transformed into a cluster of local fooderies and shops, while preserving its residential vibe. Next spring, NoLibs’ Domani Developers are slated to open a pizza shop, Pizza Brain, Little Baby’s Ice Cream, and an indoor, year-round farmers market in the old [...]
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Fishtown’s Family-Friendly Fare Ready To Go
Aired January 30th, 2012 on BYOB, Ice Cream, Openings and Pizza.0 CommentsPresented Without Commentary: This Is YONANAS
Aired July 21st, 2011 on Ice Cream, Junk Food, Kids and video.0 CommentsOk just one comment: Um…what?
Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival Returning To Reading Terminal
Aired July 13th, 2011 on Events and Ice Cream.0 CommentsThis Saturday, Bassetts Ice Cream will host the annual Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival at Reading Terminal Market. The festival features ice cream eating contests, ice cream tastings, ice cream shuffleboard, ice cream juggling, childrens arts and craft, and more ice cream related events than you can shake a spoon at. This years festival also [...]
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Food Blob: Cake And Ice Cream
Aired February 28th, 2011 on Food Blob, Ice Cream and Openings.0 CommentsKeep an eye out for these spring treats: · March 1st will see the opening of Cake and The Beanstalk, a bakery and coffee focused shop at 1112 Locust St. that will offer soups and sandwiches. Cake and The Beanstalk takes the lot left by Flying Monkey Deuce on Locust St. [Foobooz] · The spring can’t come [...]
Can We Please Give It Up For The Neapolitan Klondike?
Aired August 10th, 2010 on Ice Cream, Props Is Due and Uncategorized.1 CommentInasmuch as Kanye West would do for a blonde dyke, we’d go even farther for one of these. Bravo. It’s an idea whose time has come. While we’re at it, neapolitan ice cream slices should also replace money. That would make this, then, money in a chocolate wallet. Word.
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Attn. Cooking Channel-loving freegans, if you exist: Ching He-Huang of Chinese Cooking Made Easy on the Cooking Channel is going on an ice cream truck tour! Of the USA! For reals?!?! Now, we don’t have the scoop (tee-hee) on what the flavors are except that they are allegedly the “summer’s most delicious…coolest, tastiest flavors” and [...]
The Music Fountain: Pretty Much The Cutest Thing Ever
Aired September 29th, 2009 on Ice Cream, Openings and first look.4 CommentsOur friend/Fishtown real estate magnate/thespian Bob Murphy has had a twinkle in his eye called The Music Fountain for a few years now. It’d be a neighborhood ice cream parlor, he’s always said, that would also be a gathering place with coffee and, of course, music. Earlier this month, The Music Fountain quietly opened, and [...]
Frank Bruni On The Choco Taco: “Food That Rhymes Is Almost Always Better Than Food That Doesn’t Rhyme”
Aired August 19th, 2009 on Authors and Ice Cream.0 CommentsNightline sure is a weird place these days.
Get Ready For The Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival
Aired July 9th, 2009 on Events and Ice Cream.0 CommentsAs the South seceded and the country geared up for the Civil War way back in 1861, Lewis Dubois Bassett, a Quaker teacher and farmer, was busy creating the first batches of Bassetts Ice Cream at his home in Salem, NJ. Bassetts survives today as America’s oldest ice cream company (try their Butterscotch-Vanilla… it’s fantastic!), [...]
Still looking for something to do on Saturday before swinging on over to the Belle & Sebastian Dance Party at night? If you want your whole day to be totally twee, the stars have aligned: How about heading to Friendly’s for some free ice cream? From noon until 5pm, you can get a free single [...]
