Don't you worry, I am not going to offer you a mashup of haute couture and creme glacee.
As much as the idea of Coco, the book, of 10 star chefs each picking 10 under the radar future food sensations, I was touched by the story of Kitty Travers, the Ice Cream Truck girl.
She first came to my attention in the weeks leading up to the book publication (November 2) via She has it licked: the ice-cream maker to watch (Guardian,Oct 15).
Kitty (pictured below) "has been described as one of the culinary stars of the future, which is
unusual for someone who doesn't run their own restaurant, and who sells
ice-cream from a van. "I was very surprised," she says" to The Guardian.
The article blames it all on France. Kitty shares that "her interest in beautifully made, intensely flavored scoops of frozen
milk blossomed when she discovered Vilfeu, an ice-cream parlor just
off the Croisette. "I would sit there and have these amazing ice-cream
sundaes for breakfast," she says. "I remember their poppy seed
ice-cream, and the saffron one. That's where I got the bug."
Kitty was picked by Fergus
Henderson of Nose to Tail Cooking fame and St John Restaurant as one of his 10 in Coco.
Pigs and Ice Cream!
Kitty is shown hard at work in Ice cream van lady scoops a place among the world's superstar chefs (London Evening Standard, Oct 13) aboard her La Grotta Ices van.
Not sure if she stills sells at Islington Farmers' Market…
She is one of the 13 London based creative food minds featured in the book.
Coco is a hot selling item so in the run up to the holidays if it is on your gift list, grab a copy.
Ice cream shop Vilfeu offers no less than 85 flavors at a time, imagine.
After visiting the Phaidon Pop Up Store in New York yesterday for the I Know How to Cook book signing, I realized that there are many more titles from this publisher that I will share with you, not all food.