Ice Cream

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ice Cream : Everyone seems to like ice cream and with the market worth an incredible one billion pounds a year, it would seem to be recession-proof. This programme explores the market and the marketing. There has been an explosion in the number of artisan producers so how do they all compete? And what keeps the big players at the top of their game? What is real ice cream anyway? And, what is the difference between ice cream and gelato?

Sheila Dillon presents the programme from one of the UK's best loved ice cream parlours and is joined by expert Robin Weir who has spent the last twelve years updating his book, "Ice Cream, Sorbets and Gelati" - co-authored with wife, Caroline, - and widely recognised as the definitive guide to ice cream.

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0:54.0	The delivery the podcast. The delirium of ice cream is inseparable from juvenile glee, the uninhibited indulgence of the mouth.
1:03.0	Who could argue? inhibited indulgence of the mouth.
1:08.0	Who could argue with historian and ice cream maven Simon Sharma? There are very few naysayers when it comes to ice cream,
1:12.0	even when we're talking about the sweet, more air than anything
1:15.7	heavy on the additives brands that dominate the market.
1:20.1	But what does it take to make the real thing and then get it on the market?
1:24.8	Well, we're considering those questions today from one of the UK's first ice cream parlors,
1:31.2	the beautiful retro-Morellis facing the sea in broad stairs in Kent, opened in
1:37.7	1932, although Giuseppe Morelli started selling ice cream from the back of his bike in
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