Bassetts from the Reading Terminal Market and occasional farmers' market vendor 'Lil Pop Shop will be among the cool treat purveyors participating in Sunday's Ice Cream Bowl benefit for the University City Arts League. You can get your licks in at the league, 4226 Spruce St., from 1 to 4 p.m.
Other frozen dessert makers whose wares you can sample Sunday are Little Baby's, Shake Shack, Ben & Jerry's and West Philly's own Weckerly's.
The ice cream will be served in pottery bowls made by the league's ceramics instructors. For $10 you can walk away with the ice cream and its handcrafted bowl ($30 for a family of four). And, says Noreen Shanfelter, the league's executive director and a regular RTM shopper, there will be plenty of toppings to adorn the ice cream.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Bassett's Mural at Reading Terminal Market
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| Most visible portion of mural above Bassett's ice cream stall |
Michael Strange, Bassett's chief executive officer and great-great-grandson of the founder, said the mural was created in the 1980s by the then-girlfriend of David K. O'Neil, the market's general manager at the time. Most of the faces on the mural are those of vendors and other people associated with the market.
Monday, May 23, 2011
July 16: Ice Cream and Crème Glacée
Bassetts Ice Cream has been selling its product in Philadelphia "only" since 1885, but Lewis Debois Bassett first churned his ice cream maker in 1861 in Salem, New Jersey, which makes this year the 150th anniversary of the enterprise.
So it should not come as a surprise that this year's Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival at the Reading Terminal Market will make special observance of the anniversary. The event will be held Saturday, July 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. While Bassetts will hold most of the attention, other fine area ice cream makers will participate.
When you're done gorging yourself on ice cream you can head over to Fairmount's Eastern State Penitentiary where Bastille Day will be celebrated and you can taste some alimentaire de la révolution from neighborhood restaurants, including, perhaps, more crème glacée.
Coincidentally, Bassetts produced its ice cream just a block from the penitentiary for much of the 1970s and 1980s.
Learn more about Bassett's history here.
So it should not come as a surprise that this year's Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival at the Reading Terminal Market will make special observance of the anniversary. The event will be held Saturday, July 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. While Bassetts will hold most of the attention, other fine area ice cream makers will participate.
When you're done gorging yourself on ice cream you can head over to Fairmount's Eastern State Penitentiary where Bastille Day will be celebrated and you can taste some alimentaire de la révolution from neighborhood restaurants, including, perhaps, more crème glacée.
Coincidentally, Bassetts produced its ice cream just a block from the penitentiary for much of the 1970s and 1980s.
Learn more about Bassett's history here.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Bringing Ice Cream To China
You have have noticed some new flavors at Bassetts Ice Cream stall in the Reading Terminal Market, including Mango, Green Tea and Macadamia Nut.
Those flavors, which sell respectably in Philadelphia, are big hits in China, where Bassetts has sold its ice cream for the past two years. Michael Strange, proprietor of Bassetts, says he's shipped hundreds of tons since starting in May 2008.
The 40-foot containers are trucked to Port Newark-Elizabeth on a regular basis for export from Bassett's contract plant near Johnstown, Galliker Dairy Co. The ice cream is distributed in the Beijing area.
Strange said he had had inquiries in the past to sell abroad, but the deals always fell apart. The Chinese deal, however, has taken off like hotcakes, er, ice cream on a summer day
You have have noticed some new flavors at Bassetts Ice Cream stall in the Reading Terminal Market, including Mango, Green Tea and Macadamia Nut.
Those flavors, which sell respectably in Philadelphia, are big hits in China, where Bassetts has sold its ice cream for the past two years. Michael Strange, proprietor of Bassetts, says he's shipped hundreds of tons since starting in May 2008.
The 40-foot containers are trucked to Port Newark-Elizabeth on a regular basis for export from Bassett's contract plant near Johnstown, Galliker Dairy Co. The ice cream is distributed in the Beijing area.
Strange said he had had inquiries in the past to sell abroad, but the deals always fell apart. The Chinese deal, however, has taken off like hotcakes, er, ice cream on a summer day
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