Just Peachy Red Barn Farm Stand and Creamery, Mansfield September 2021 Mansfield is a lot more than UConn. And it's a lot bigger, I think, than many people realize. Away from the university, Mansfield is a very rural community, equally forested and farmed. When I went to school up there, I was on the cycling team … [Read more...]
A.C. Petersen Farms
Petering Out Ice Cream at AC Petersen Farms, West Hartford July 2021 I'm about to commit heresy. Connecticut heresy. Hometown of 20 years West Hartford heresy. Just warning you now. AC Petersen Farms, a name which has always bothered me syntactically, is a local landmark. The company's origins date back to … [Read more...]
Canton Creamery
Ferreting Out the Ice Cream Canton Creamery, Canton June 2021 Yes, this is the place you drove past and did a doubletake. Yes, that building where Routes 44, 202, and 179 merge/split that sells tractors, chicken feed, hamsters, fishtanks, dog food, liquor, beer, flowers, and ice cream. Welcome to Petal & Paws in … [Read more...]
Cromwell Creamery
Crom-om-nom-om Cromwell Creamery, Cromwell July 2019 This page contains a terrifying picture of me below. It was taken by my eight-year-old son after eight exhausting hours at Portland’s Brownstone Exploration & Discovery Park. My eyes are closed and I’m about to eat a massively over-portioned ice cream … [Read more...]
J. Foster Ice Cream
Fostering Larger Waistlines J. Foster Ice Cream, Avon May 2019 The Simsbury location closed in October 2020. It’s a bit weird to me to write about something I’ve been to a dozen times already over the course of the last decade. Such is the case with J. Foster Ice Cream in Avon. They have a satellite location in … [Read more...]
Holy Cow Ice Cream Shop
Harry Caray’s Fave Holy Cow Ice Cream Shop, Newtown May 2019 Something happens to me far more infrequently than you’d believe: I visit a place for this website and wonder if I’d been there before. That has happened to me exactly once in 13 years so far and it was here, at The Holy Cow Ice Cream Shop in Newtown. … [Read more...]
Scotties Frozen Custard
Egg on My Face Scotties Frozen Custard, Colchester May 2019 Pardon me for a moment as I set my brain to accept the fact that “Scotties” has no apostrophe. Collins Creamery in Enfield doesn’t either, but that one’s easier to accept. Then there’s Collin’s Diner in North Canaan which does have one whereas Phil … [Read more...]
Robb’s Farm Ice Cream
Not Our First Ice Cream Rodeo Ice Cream at Robb's Farm, Glastonbury August 2013 Here I am, cleaning up old messes on this here website. Unfortunately, the folks at Robb's Farm, Robb's Ice Cream, and Riverview Farms are making a mess on top of my mess. Robb's Farm has a website. Riverview Farms has a website. They … [Read more...]
Wentworth Homemade Ice Cream
I Went, For What It's Worth Wentworth Homemade Ice Cream, Hamden June, 2014 Here's the craziest thing about Wentworth's: It's never open on Sundays. "Fine," you say, "they're observing the Sabbath," or, "they want to enjoy a weekend day," or whatever. All valid reasons. But Wentworth's is just outside of … [Read more...]
Ferris Acres Creamery
A Good Way to Spend a Day Off Ferris Acres Creamery, Newtown August 2013 “Hey Steve, why haven’t you gone to Ferris Acres yet? Bueller? Bueller?” My answer is always the same, “Oh but I have. I just haven’t written about it yet. I'm waiting for a Ferris Day Off.” My point is that Ferris Acres commands a lot of … [Read more...]
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