From to monkey orange to tahini, glidah flavors keep getting wackier
By Dana Kessler for Tablet Magazine
Considering Israeli weather, it’s no surprise that
this is a country that takes its ice cream very seriously. Ice cream may not be
a traditional Israeli dessert, but every summer more and more ice cream shops
pop up all around the country–some independent, others part of chains–and each
year, in order to entice new customers, they add stranger and more imaginative
flavors to their menus. Some prove to be favorites, others serve mainly for
novelty purposes and disappear at the end of the season. The examples are endless. Allora, located on Marmorek Street in Tel Aviv, opposite Habima square, specializes in Italian-style gelato as well as refreshing sorbets. Among Allora’s new sorbet flavors for summer 2013 are red raspberry and rose-water, and one mixing two popular Israeli summer-drinks: arak and limonana. These new flavors join older but no less strange offerings like tomato sorbet with basil, avocado sorbet (with or without wasabi), and chocolate ice cream with chili peppers.
Capitolina, which has three branches in operation plus two more on the way, serves flavors like baharat, white chocolate with black pepper, and something called ‘white coffee’—made out of Yemenite coffee and ground green coffee bean-peel with Hawaij. They also offer quince sorbet with arak.
One of Israel’s most highly-regarded boutique ice cream parlor chains is Vaniglia. At their 13 branches, Vaniglia offers wacky flavors like popcorn, oak tree, vanilla pods and olive-oil, 10 spices, and a flavor known as “masculine ice cream,” which combines what are apparently four very manly flavors: licorice, malt, rum and tobacco.
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