The cows in the pasture across the street are part of Fairfield County's last commercial dairy herd; small wonder the ice cream at Ferris Acres is fresh as can be. Meltingly smooth, too, as you can tell by that imminent little drop. Peach and sweet cream (two scoops, $2.95).
Ferris Acres Creamery
144 Sugar St. (Rte. 302), Newtown, Connecticut
203-426-8803
www.FerrisAcresCreamery.com
Closed after October 30 till late April, or thenabouts
Usually I have mine dipped in cherry.
Sausage-and-pepper sub (about $7.50). No verve, just volume.
Pine Hill Deli
1391 High Ridge Rd., Stamford, Connecticut
203-322-0760
I ordered white, not red.
Blueberry is peachy; golden highlights are the giveaway.
This weekdays-only "gourmet lunch wagon" parks in the crowded lot out back of the Black Forest Pastry Shop, in Greenwich, Connecticut, the same town where Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream made its name. One featured menu item, which hearkens back to a 1972 flick about a left-handed gun, is The Dirty Little Billy Dog ($3.50), mussed up with chili, relish, Creole mustard, and a jalapeño black bean spread. Being wrapped in foil, then bagged, didn't improve its looks none but didn't hurt its spicy nature, neither.
Uncle Rick's Standing Room Only
In the lot off Lewis St. (Mason St.-Liberty Way), Greenwich, Connecticut
203-613-3470
Weekdays, 10:00-3:30
Uncle Rick's Standing Room Only, on Facebook
There wasn't much from the old country on offer.
If not at the market, ideally you'll gather yours from a more generous species than the Eastern white pine.
Precipitated by the economic troubles of the 1990s, a Russian-speaking enclave has slowly been growing in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut.
It's come down a lot in the world. I could make out the faded word "Olympia," several storeys above street level, only after backtracking from the address to a brief text ad that appears in several 1914 issues of The Guide to Nature, a publication of the Aggasiz Association from 1908 till 1935. According to Olympia's sign, they were "manufacturers of pure ----y [presumably, "candy"] & ice cream"; there's also the little matter of "5¢". These days, a nickel won't get you very far at the candy store, but you can still do pretty well with a quarter.
Surviving painted ad for Olympia Candy Company
107 Atlantic St., Stamford, Connecticut
Thank you!
