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Ice cream, the happy food A closer look reveals its delicate balance

Ice cream and happiness, it is said, go

together like cookies n' cream.

"You cannot be a grouch and work in the ice cream business," says Bruce Tharp, a food science professor at Penn State University who fancies neckties in ice cream prints much as a fashionista would Armani suits.

Adds Dale Conoscenti, a twinkly-eyed food product developer and self-described "chefphilosopher" from Vermont, "Ice cream is such a fun experience."

And why not? Ice cream is, by its very nature, sweet. Under certain circumstances or shared with certain company, it is capable of evoking all sorts of warm and fuzzy memories of childhood, summer, first dates.

For two days recently I listened to Tharp, Conoscenti ...

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