Slow Food Nation '08

Fort Mason Center | Included with Taste Pavilions Ticket: $45 – 65 | Saturday, August 30; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm | Sunday, August 31; 11am – 3pm; 5pm – 9pm

Enjoying ice cream is such a simple, universal pleasure that you’d never imagine the work that goes into making it: adjusting texture and consistency, sourcing ingredients, combining flavors and, of course, tasting. At the Ice Cream Pavilion, artisan ice cream-makers served scoops of “traditional,” “modern,” and “odd” flavors of ice cream, gelato, sherbet and sorbet. An explanation of the histories of these sweets and the science that distinguishes them served as backdrop to the simple, beautiful pleasure of closing one’s eyes and tasting them.

Featured ice cream-makers:

•    Bi-Rite Creamery, San Francisco, CA
•    Gelateria Cici, Mill Valley, CA
•    Gelateria Naia, Berkeley, CA
•    Jeni’s Ice Cream, Columbus, OH
•    La Divina Gelateria, New Orleans, LA
•    Laloo’s, Petaluma, CA
•    Ruby Jewel, Portland, OR
•    SF Gelato, San Francisco, CA
•    Straus Family Creamery, Marshall, CA