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Article: It's never too cold to eat ice cream!(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 28, 2007
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Byline: Georgianna Pfost
"A plate a day" read the motto on stationery of a restaurant owned by relatives in the early 1900s. "A plate of what?" you ask. Pasta? Chicken? Blackberry pie? No, in the desert of central Arizona, it meant a plate of ice cream, year-round. And while that shop selling ice cream, cactus candy, and sandwiches is now long gone, my family members still follow the tradition and maintain close personal connections to the frozen confection.
In this family, no one is ever too old or too young to enjoy ice cream. One oft-repeated tale at family gatherings was how my father, then a 1-year-old sitting in a high chair during a family meal ...