The Reluctant Gourmet: Another chill zone
20.05.12
I don't like ice cream. After years of boarding school, you would think I'd eat anything gratefully. But I have some strange issues. No soft drinks. No oysters. (In my opinion you might as well lick a sea-weed encrusted rock by the beach.) And no ice cream. It's too cutesy. Too self-indulgent. And far too sweet.
Yet, at Amadora, I find myself feeling strangely nostalgic when owner Deepak Suresh waxes eloquent about how ice cream is an emotional product. “You always remember your first taste of ice cream,” he says, as we settle down around a table shaped like a piece from a jigsaw puzzle at his newly opened ice cream parlour. And yes. Deepak says the tables fit together in a big jigsaw. I'm hoping to go back when there are no customers around so I can sneakily try pushing them together. It's another little issue of mine. I don't really believe anything till I try it myself. Which is why I'm currently on a gluten-free diet, to research a story. And why I spend every morning in a panic typing questions into Google. Today's was ‘Is there gluten in tequila?” Yesterday's was — of course — is there gluten in ice cream? Apparently not.
Source: The Hindu