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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sweet spot. The scoop on ice cream a tour across america presents the cultural, economic and historical significance of the frozen dessert. A fter zigzagging across the country searching for americas best ice cream, i found myself in. I understand her obsession, both in the making of it and the consuming of it, and have been known to plan road trips and detours around a visit to an ice cream shop. Lunchtime is so short in some public schools, students are. An ice cream binge across america, which the wall street journal hailed as a surprisingly serious, impressively thorough treatment of ice creams cultural significance. Whether it started in china or italy, no one was really keeping record, amy ettinger, author of the justreleased sweet spot. For amy ettinger, ice cream is not just a delicious snack but a circumstance and a time of year frozen forever in memory.
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