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Clementine’s Ice Cream Founder Tamara Keefe On Gooey Butter Cake & Big Dreams

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4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Tamara Keefe, founder and CEO of Clementine’s Ice Cream, the St. Louis–based creamery known for its inventive flavors, ice cream parlors, and devoted following. Tamara started Clementine’s after walking away from a successful corporate career, and has since grown the company from one tiny neighborhood ice cream parlor into a nationally recognized brand. Tamara joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about the childhood ice cream tradition that changed her life, why she decided to bet on herself, and how she built Clementine’s from the ground up—first by selling to restaurants, delivering pints around St. Louis, and eventually opening her first parlor. She shares what makes Clementine’s special, from its “organoleptic” parlor experience to its kosher-certified signature line, boozy ice creams, and dairy-free offerings. They also dive into Clementine’s famous Gooey Butter Cake ice cream, Tamara’s Route 66–inspired summer flavors, and why vanilla is the true test of a great ice cream maker. Plus, Tamara talks about Cone Con, her upcoming wedding, and why ice cream might just be the happiest food there is. Thank you to Fisher & Paykel & Nonino for supporting our show. Click here to pre-order The Game Changers issue of Cherry Bombe magazine. Sign up for our free Radio Cherry Bombe newsletters at cherrybombe.substack.com More on Tamara: Instagram, Clementine's Ice Cream More on Kerry: Instagram, “So You Want To Open A Restaurant” Substack series

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. You're listening to Radio Cherrybaum, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond,

0:09.5

coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City.

0:14.4

Summertime is pretty much here, so I thought it would be fun to interview an ice cream expert.

0:19.1

Today's guest is Tamara Keefe, founder of Clementine's

0:22.6

ice cream. Tamara joins me to talk about what makes her company and its flavor is so unique,

0:27.1

and she also shares the incredible story of what inspired Clementines, why she walked away from her

0:32.4

successful corporate career and how she built her company from the ground up. You're going to be

0:37.3

very impressed.

0:38.9

Plus, Tamara tells us about Clementine's famous flavor, the gooey buttercake ice cream, and she

0:44.3

explains what Kohn Khan is all about, you could probably guess, and we also talk about her

0:48.9

upcoming wedding and why ice cream might just be the happiest food there is. Stay tuned for

0:54.1

my conversation with

0:55.3

Tamara Keefe. Today's episode is brought to you by Fisher and Pichel. The best kitchens don't

1:01.0

start with appliances or layouts. They start with people, how you move through a space, how you cook,

1:06.1

how you host, how you connect. For more than 90 years, Fisher and Pichel has believed in designing for real

1:12.0

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1:17.0

giving you the freedom to design a kitchen that feels intuitive, personal, and effortless.

1:22.4

It's not just choosing finishes or appliances, but creating a space that works in harmony with

1:27.0

how you live.

1:28.3

At the center of it all is something Fisher and Pichael calls design freedom, the ability

1:32.8

to move beyond standard layouts and create a kitchen tailored to you. Fisher and Pichael knows

1:37.9

that no two homes are the same, just as no two cooks are the same. A well-designed kitchen

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