It's Free Cone Day at participating Ben & Jerry's across the nation. From noon to 8 p.m., customers can get a free cone of ice cream in the flavor of his or her choice, including classic, Greek Frozen Yogurt and newer flavors.
flickr/yuhui Ben & Jerry's ice cream
What's in your cart, chef? This week, we ask Karen Klemens, the master preserver behind Mothercluck's vibrant seasonal canned goods and jams as well as chef/owner of Mother Moo Creamery. Open for a year and a half in a location that formerly housed a Domino's Pizza, Mother Moo has quickly become known for its variety of ice cream flavors, from simple (three milks) to sublime (medlar), and for serving excellent Plow & Gun coffee.
A. Broder-Hahn McGrath strawberries
"I've got these good, good, good, good, good, good -- that's six goods -- Seascape strawberries from McGrath. Right now I'm getting from them but over the course of the season I might get some from Harry's, too -- just whoever has the most flavorful, least watery berries. I'll macerate these for a couple of days to intensify their flavor and make sure there's no iciness," she told us on Sunday at the Hollywood Farmers Market, one of nine markets McGrath sells at throughout the Southland.
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Among the molecular gastronomic set, liquid nitrogen (Ln2) is one tool that has made a transition from behind the kitchen to front stage of a bar or dining room. The Bazaar makes its Ln2 Caipirinha 20 table-side, forming its icy cocktail Brazilian cachaca, fresh lime and sugar with liquid nitrogen. Similarly, Michael Voltaggio's ink. found multiple ways to take advantage of the frost-inducing element from cocktail to entrée.
Facebook/Ice Cream Lab Angeles Apple Pie ice cream
Opening on Friday, March 15, Ice Cream Lab introduces Ln2 on a more approachable field, crafting the frozen treats on order by using the nitrogen to freeze ice cream at temperatures below 320 degrees Fahrenheit. The Beverly Hills shop is a first edition from co-founders Joseph Lifschutz and Tommy Ngan.
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Step aside, chicken soup. An Ohio-based ice cream maker has a sorbet to help with flu symptoms, ABC News reports.
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams Influenza Sorbet
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams' Influenza Sorbet contains honey, ginger, cayenne pepper and orange and lemon juice. Oh, and Maker's Mark bourbon.
"My mother and grandmother made something very similar to that as a drink when I was a kid, even with the whiskey," Jenni Britton Bauer, the company's founder and president, told ABC. "Whiskey, honey and lemon juice -- that was our cough medicine, and they would thin it out and make it into a hot drink."
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Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes.
A. Scattergood Tavern's coupe
25: Tavern's Poached Pear Coupe.
Like pretty much anything else you find on the menu at any one of Suzanne Goin's restaurants, the desserts at Tavern are artful studies in composition. Goin is terrific at many things, but juxtaposing seasonal ingredients, using classical technique to access sudden bursts of flavor, is perhaps her particular genius. So after you feast on pork confit with mole or steak with onion panade, you might order one of the coupes, the beautiful layered glasses of ice cream that Goin likes to put on the menu at both Tavern and Lucques.
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Last week, to much fanfare, New York City's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck rolled into Los Angeles for the first time ever, bringing its famous Strauss-creamery soft serve and dulce de leche with it. It was billed as a "pop-up truck," combining two of the most overused food trends in a way that might have given you brain freeze if you thought about it too hard. It didn't matter though, because there was ice cream, and everyone loves ice cream. 
Tejal Rao Salty Pimp at Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
If you were smart, you might have gone early in the week to its lunchtime post-ups outside Duff's Cake Mix on Melrose, at Yahoo HQ in Santa Monica, or near some of the production studios up in Hollywood. (What, no stops in Boystown?) For the most part, the lines there amounted to a lengthy but manageable 20-minute wait.
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Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes.
E. Shatkin Brown Brown Bread at Scoops Westside
57: Brown Brown Bread Ice Cream at Scoops Westside.
Robert Redford once said "health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better." We couldn't agree more.
But what if there was a way to satisfying both your conscience and your sweet tooth, without resorting to, say, a sugar-free, watered-down cup of imitation frozen yogurt? At Scoops Westside in Palms, the Brown Brown Bread ice cream offers exactly that. Rich and creamy ice cream that's never cloying and undeniably comforting.
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The next Ice Age might be coming sooner than you think. On Wednesday Sept. 5, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits will partner up with the CoolHaus truck to hand out free saber-toothed ice cream sandwiches between 12:30-1:30 at the corner of Wilshire and Curson Blvd. 
Rachel Hollis Saber-Tooth Sammie
What's the reason for celebration? The life-sized, ferocious-looking saber-tooth tiger puppet that has been performing at the Natural History Museum is transferring to the Page Museum for full-time shows (the Tar Pits also happen to hold the remains many real-life prehistoric cats too, FYI).
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Until now, you could pick up Plow & Gun's excellent, fun coffee soda -- a carbonated cold-brew infused with cardamom and piloncillo -- only on Wednesdays, when they set up at the Altadena Farmers Market between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. But, as the blistering hot weather persists in persisting regardless of the day of the week, it's welcome news that you can now find this bubbly jolt of caffeine every day at Mother Moo Creamery's brick and mortar in Sierra Madre. 
A. Scattergood Plow & Gun's coffee soda
A paleta is, ostensibly, an ice pop. One made in-store and by hand, using recipes guarded like family jewels, in flavors carried over from Mexican favorites: ciruela pasa (prune), grosella (currant), guanabana (soursop), guayaba (guava), jamaica (hibiscus), nuez (walnut), pepino con chile (cucumbers with chile) and tamarindo (tamarind). Yes, a paleta is an ice pop, in the same way that a square is a rectangle, which is to say it's frozen and has a stick. But "ice pop," so often comprised of frozen water and various flavored corn-syrups, doesn't quite capture the essence of paleta, its sense of color and tradition and its distinct flavor -- like that of summer in Los Angeles. Turn the page for 10 of our favorites. 
Aaron Stein-Chester Mamey paleta at Los Alpes
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