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Salt & Straw’s Wild-Foraged Berry Slab Pie Ice Cream

You're sure to flip for this dreamy "Wild Foraged Berry Slab Pie'' ice cream recipe by Salt & Straw.
You’re sure to flip for this dreamy “Wild-Foraged Berry Slab Pie” ice cream recipe by Salt & Straw.

A loaded, buttery berry pie a la mode — but remade into pure ice cream form.

That’s what this dreamy “Wild Foraged Berry Slab Pie Ice Cream” tastes like with its ripples of jammy berries and chunks of sugary crust throughout.

Of course, it can only be from the new “America’s Most Iconic Ice Creams: A Salt & Straw Cookbook” (Clarkson Potter), of which I received a review copy.

With more than 75 recipes for ice creams, sherbets, and sorbets, it was written by Tyler Malek, co-founder of Salt & Straw, one of the most boundary-pushing and wildly successful ice cream companies in the country; and James Beard Award-winning food writer J.J. Goode.

Malek hones in on America’s most beloved ice cream flavors, and provides not only his best versions of them, but uses them as a springboard to create even more fanciful riffs.

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Churn a Batch of Salt & Straw’s Imperial Stout Milk Sorbet with Blackberry-Fig Jam

This sorbet is made with stout, as well as jam loaded with dried Mission figs and fresh blackberries.
This sorbet is made with stout, as well as jam loaded with dried Mission figs and fresh blackberries.

It’s not that I set out to confound my husband.

But when it comes to ice cream, I often can’t help it.

You see, I am married to someone who wants to eat vanilla ice cream — and only vanilla ice cream.

But who wants to live in a world of only vanilla?

Not I, for one.

So when a review copy of the new “Salt & Straw Ice Cream Cookbook” (Clarkson Potter) arrived in the mail, I couldn’t wait to tear into to make something especially fun and inventive.

After all, the ice cream company founded in 2011 in Portland, OR by cousins Tyler and Malek with locations in the Bay Area now, is famed for its zany flavors. Salt & Straw unabashedly does its best to “Keep Portland Weird.”

But that’s not to say that this ice cream maker gives precedence to wacky over excellence. Not at all. Its innovative flavors may have you scratching your head at first, but once you try them, you will marvel at their execution. Don’t just take my word for it. All it takes is to stop by a Salt & Straw ice cream shop to see the lines at all hours of legions of fans who can’t get enough of ice cream flavors you won’t find anywhere else. Best of all, Salt & Straw often incorporates specialty ingredients local to each of its stores.

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