Sweet Bite’s pairings may be cold, but their ice cream sandwiches are hot, developing a local following throughout the DC area’s farmers markets. Sweet potato marshmallow is a winner! Co-founder Tricia Widgen explains the hottest cold spell in DC.
Greenopolis, a site to which I occasionally contribute, released this interview with Ben & Jerry. It was great having Greenopolis there—they have over a million visitors a month and this interview captures the spirit of the boys of Burlington who did good.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are just as feisty, irreverent, and enthusiastic about their company and beliefs 32 years later. Ben & Jerry’s is still the CSR model. The push for Fair Trade ingredients makes the iconic company even more relevant.
Why does Fair Trade matter? Paying a slight premium for goods from cotton to bananas to coffee ensures that farmers get a decent price for their crops; that their kids go to school and they have access to credit; and middlemen, who often exploited these farmers, are cut out of the picture.
The flavor graveyard of Ben & Jerry’s can add a label’s corpse. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, to some the country’s largest party pooper–to others the leader in holding companies accountable to their claims while reducing our collective saturated fat intake–has been attacking Ben & Jerry’s labeling claims, and has ratted out the company to the FDA as far back as 2002, describing the company’s use of “natural” as “deceptive.”
Summer means ice cream, and Sweet Bite Creamery of Washington, DC has been defining frozen desserts at DC regional farmers’ markets lately. A photo tour is in order. Come aboard!
Like other American innovations, other countries have hijacked this delicious treat and made it their own. Why do these countries offer such supurb frozen concoctions? First, fresh ingredients like fruit and cream help. Bulgaria, Hungary, Korea, Brazil, and Argentina top the list
Ashley Allen and Tricia Widgen started Sweet Bite Creamery, which features a collection of ice cream sandwiches that are not your ordinary Klondike Bar.