Opening in Wallingford this Saturday, Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream [0] promises to be to ice cream what another Wallingford favorite, Mighty-O [0], is to doughnuts.
Proprietor Molly Moon Neitzel (yes, it's her real name; "my parents were hippies"), a former executive director of Music for America [1], uses organic milk from Maltby, strawberries from the Skagit Valley and other locally sourced ingredients to make offbeat but tempting ice cream flavors like honey-lavender, balsamic strawberry, Vivace coffee, Thai iced tea and cardamom, as well as more traditional favorites like chocolate, vanilla bean and bubble gum. Plus, there are always two vegan sorbets on hand.
You can taste the goods Saturday at 3 p.m., when the proprietor and her faithful dog Parker Posey (yes, it's her real name; her mom's a hipster) open Molly Moon's doors to a city that's never said no to a sweet propostion. Kids get free cones from 3 to 5 p.m., and Eric Johnson of the Shins will do a DJ set.
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