Spruce tip ice cream was the first flavour Wood churned when she opened her shop four years ago, in mid-June 2018. She collects the tips while on long spring walks in the forest with Humble, a ...

Vanilla beans – like flour, butter and eggs – are a pastry chef’s key ingredient. At PICA, they find their way into ice cream, panna cotta and pastry cream, to name just a few items.

The beans provide nitrogen for all three plants while the squash covers the earth. In so doing, the squash foliage serves as a living mulch, preserving soil moisture and squelching weed growth. Herbs.

Scoop & Bean in the Annex is a new cafe that gave Alyssa and I an excuse to eat a scoop (of ice cream) with our morning bean (coffee), improving our day significantly.

Vanilla beans – like flour, butter and eggs – are a pastry chef’s key ingredient. At PICA, they find their way into ice cream, panna cotta and pastry cream, to name just a few items.