Alongside textiles, it ruled the agricultural industry, but as the production of these items slowly moved overseas or was reduced significantly, growing fields lay bare.

Roughly twenty years have passed since the last great ice cream revolution kicked off, with the likes of Jeni's Ice Cream in Columbus, Ohio (launched in 2002) and Bi-Rite Creamery in San Francisco (2006) and so many others.There have been more than a few of these disruptive periods in America's long ice cream history—so why not once again, and why not right now?

In some cities, the change is coming so fast that when we talk about the best ice creams in town, we're often talking about places that may not have existed even a year ago.. All this sudden shifting around in the hierarchy presented something of a challenge to our survey, the result of many years of tasting ice cream (and frozen custard, and gelato) in each of the fifty states.To keep things simple, in order to qualify, it seemed fair to ask for at least a year or two of uninterrupted production, hopefully, longer, allowing each maker to settle in and find its groove.Chances are, however, the next time this list gets updated, the landscape will be rather dramatically altered..

Even with this kind of guidance in place, the decisions in some places ended up being almost too difficult.Hopefully, this list, which didn't necessarily favor old or new, but rather asked the question, fifty times,.

what feels the most essential.

, depicts as well as it can, the diversity and depth of our national ice cream culture.vegetable choppers.

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