Underbelly NYC

07/21/2024

The Emperor of Ice Cream
Wallace Stevens

Call the roller of big ci**rs,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass k***s, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her h***y feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Happy national ice cream day, everyone.

04/13/2023

https://under-belly.org/ice-cream-may-be-good-for-you-scientists-uncomfortably-say/

Ice Cream May be Good for You, Scientists Uncomfortably SayPublic health historian David Merritt Johns has written an unusually thorough and lucid piece in The Atlantic on this unlikely research phenomenon: a series of scientific studies shows a health benefit to eating ice cream. And the researcher...

01/28/2020

Ice cream book reviews, for the unapologetic ice cream nerd: https://under-belly.org/ice-cream-book-reviews/

07/22/2019

By popular demand: the secrets to the best sorbet you've never had: https://under-belly.org/sample-sorbet-recipe/

03/31/2019

Underbelly offers consulting services to culinary professionals around the world. Our most in-demand service: developing artisanal ice cream formulas for small shops and pastry kitchens.

We can help you create the perfect texture, solve problems, work within regional ingredient limitations, and perfect your flavor infusions.

We have amassed knowledge from the world's most creative pastry chefs and food scientists, and from in-the-trenches experience at ice cream shops and Michelin-starred restaurants.

Write to [email protected].

03/31/2019

By popular request: Chocolate
https://underbelly-nyc.blogspot.com/2018/09/chocolate-ice-cream.html

Cocoa Farm. Courtesy of knowingfarms.com Welcome to our second deep-dive into flavor. I’ve had more requests for chocolate than f...

05/08/2018

For all coffee nerds and ice cream nerds, here's more about the subtle art of getting single-origin coffee flavors into ice cream.

Farmland in Banga, Burundi. Photo by Christine Vaufrey. From dailycoffeenews.com The coffee ice cream method described in the previou...

02/28/2018

Ice cream season comes early in the anthropocene. Check out our series of posts on flavor, starting with a treatise on the best coffee ice cream you've never had:

Welcome to the first post that focusses on a single flavor. We’re looking at coffee, not because it’s simple—it’s maybe the most compl...

03/21/2017

Check out our current advanced ice cream explorations on the underbelly blog: http://underbelly-nyc.blogspot.com