The Taster Magazine Summer 2014 Retour à l'édition précédente

Summer special featuring ice cream, gelato, sorbet, and other frozen puddings and frosty treats.

The main feature provides a brief history of ice cream and how to make a frozen pudding the old-fashioned way, without a churn or freezer. One of our contributors has been inspired to write a poem and we are indebted to several infant persons for their thoughts on chocolate sprinkles and the perfect ice cream cone. We also talked to a “Gelato Maestro” who gave up a Bafta-winning career in TV in order to make real Italian ice cream in Brighton (he sent us some of the most mouthwatering pictures of gelato).

Plenty more including the uses of cherries and strawberries, best barbecuing techniques, summer drinks, book excerpts on dieting through the ages, 19th-century gourmandism, a comprehensive calendar of food festivals (the most complete we can find on the net), a tricksy food-related crossword, food news round-up, recap of what the Celeb Chefs have been up to, and some very funny foodie ‘horrorscopes’.

Finally, we have a unique FOOD MAP of the world . . . you may have seen it on YouTube or Twitter but it's 1 minute 7 seconds of strangely hypnotic bliss, as a connoisseur's-eye-view of the globe arises before your very eyes. Bon appetit.