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Gus Rancatore, whose Toscanini’s shop in Cambridge, Mass., is renowned as much for its deep-thinking clientele as for its sundaes, discovered long ago that catering to the technology-minded crowd could have unforeseen advantages. One day, two M.I.T. students who were “working in superconductors,” Mr. Rancatore said, took a good look at his ice cream machine, visible through his shop window, and were “distressed by the poor engineering.” So they took it back to their lab and transformed its inefficient gear-drive mechanism into a lean, mean, belt-driven machine. That was 23 years ago. “We still use the machine,” Mr. Rancatore said. “Another generation of M.I.T. engineers just tuned it up this summer.”
— New York Times article on science-related tourist stops in Boston.
Current Apple Pie rankings
My 2nd favourite apple pie is made by an old Italian woman at the weekly Canberra Region Farmers’ Market. It has plenty of egg and butter in the pastry - yum.
Unfortunately, the 1st favourite apple pie does not have a web site. It’s Dobinsons Bakery Cafe “Apple Crumble”, available for $2.90 at both locations in the Canberra Centre. It has a touch of coconut in the topping - double yum.
I often find myself trying to think up an excuse to go into the city so I can visit Dobinsons.
1 September 2008 - 01:13 | Tags: food, applepie, canberra
Homer Hudson’s Chocolate Rock Ice Cream, the greatest ice cream in existence.
19 August 2008 - 18:17 | Tags: homerhudson, icecream, food