Indian-American reminiscence of a visit to Mexico: chikoo ice cream, prepared from a fruit also known as chicozapote, which I've savored in Roma Sur. (And, after a fashion, also "by the scoop.") The flavor of the fruit mingles "brown sugar and pear," Margret Hefner notes in Frutas y Verduras, with some of a ripe pear's granularity; the ice cream captures it well.
Chikoo: Kwality Ice Cream
25803 Hillside Ave. (258th-259th Sts., inside Honest restaurant), Floral Park, Queens
718-675-4500
Also at 1734 Oak Tree Rd. (Meridian-Sugar Rds., inside the Oak Village shopping plaza), Edison, New Jersey
732-906-1941
www.KwalityFoods.com
Chicozapote: Fruteria Monsalvo
Mercado de Medellín, stall 151
Calle Campeche 101 (Medellín-Monterrey), Roma Sur, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
+52 55 7030-8206
(From a March 2017 visit)
