Ice Cream. San Francisco, USA
November 2019 Gelato, classic or innovative, take your pick of ice cream shop in San Francisco. I love experimental interpretations of conventional foods so I couldn’t walk passed Salt and Straw in Hayes Valley without having to go in to investigate. Flavours change monthly so being a week before Thanksgiving, that was the theme of most of their flavours. Think turkey, sweet potato casserole, stuffing and pumpkin pie in ice cream form. Initially I wasn’t convinced, however taking a look at the ingredients revealed how cleverly this had been done. I sampled the Thanksgiving turkey – caramelised turkey skin folded in to salted caramel ice cream. An explosion of flavours – sweet, salty and a definite meatiness that meant it had a very rich mouth feel. Delicious as a sample but not sure I could have managed a whole scoop. Much fresher was the goats cheese and winter spice ice cream, streaked with baked pumpkin pie. The ta...