Garlic ice cream

Preparation and description

According to a recipe by the San Francisco-based restaurant, The Stinking Rose, which is well known for including garlic in all of its dishes, garlic ice cream is basically vanilla ice cream with some garlic. The Scandinavian Garlic & Shots, which is based in Södermalm, serves garlic ice cream which is essentially a combination of honey flavoured ice cream and garlic. Garlic ice cream is savoury in taste.

Reception

Tasters of garlic ice cream at the 2012 North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival had positive feedback for the ice cream flavour, with one of them commenting that it "is really creamy, subtle flavors, but you can taste the garlic".

Notable use

Garlic ice cream has been a featured dish at several garlic conventions. Examples include the 1986 Ithaca Garlic Festival in Ithaca, New York and the Gilroy Garlic Festival, which has included garlic ice cream as one of its featured garlic dishes a handful of times, including in 2000 and 2005. It has also been showcased at the 2011 Toronto Garlic Festival in Toronto, Canada and the 2012 North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival at Forster's Farm in Orange, Massachusetts.

Garlic ice cream is a food item on The Stinking Rose's food menu. The ice cream flavour is treated as a "sauce" to accompany food items like steak, although it can also be consumed as a dessert item.

In popular culture

In accordance with a stereotype that Jews tend to add garlic to most of their food, a novel by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz depicted Polish Jews eating garlic ice cream.