Every time you go to a country it is amazing to visit all the different places that it has to offer! Such as restaurants, bars, pubs and also ice cream parlors! I have been living in Germany for 9 months now. When I arrived here I already knew I wanted to find several places and make them my new favorite spots, like I used to have them in Mexico. Once you have found some of these places that you can regularly go to, it will make you feel more like home. Meanwhile I already found some locations that I really love and I go a lot. One of them is "True & 12" (Click here for more information) I have to mention that I am a huge matcha lover and one day I was really in the mood of matcha ice cream. Suddenly, when I was checking my Instagram, I saw a picture of a matcha ice cream posted by True & 12. Naturally, I went to try it and it was just perfect! It was the most delicious and healthiest ice cream I tried in Germany so far. Moreover, it was "handmade". I decided that I wanted to share with you everything about this amazing ice cream. That's why I decided to contact Davina and Rony, the founders, to ask if it was possible to interview them and see how they make their delicious ice cream. Nice as they are, they told me "Yes!". I was so excited because it would be my first time to actually see how ice cream is made and I would learn more about "handmade ice cream". I had the opportunity to talk with Rony and for me it was an amazing experience to hear all about his amazing story. Here's the interview with Rony and Davina:
2. Where did you try the best ice cream when you were traveling around the world? - Rony: Interesting question! My pleasures have being changed! The best ice cream that I tried was in Italy, in Bologna at a place called "The Sorbetteria Castiglione". What I loved about that ice cream is that everything was handmade. - Davina: It is hard to pick just one place because actually every country has a different "style" of ice cream. In the US for example is really quite heavy, and they use a lot of cream cheese and fat which also makes it quite chewy. I like lighter ice cream, or technically "gelato" by definition. We once had an amazing sorbet in Verona which I will never forget and another sorbet in Porto, Portugal which was also memorable! 3. What is the craziest flavor that you have ever tried? - Rony: Salmon flavor. I did not like it at all. Really strong taste. - Davina: The nice thing about ice cream is that you can make transform any ingredient or flavor into an ice cream! Nothing beats a real 'vanilla with real beans' flavor! Which sadly you rarely find anymore. And nothing beats a silky and rich chocolate ice cream either. But I also like to experiment, just not with savory things like cheese, tomato and meat. Its do-able but I prefer the sweet flavors, and fruits and things that pair well with the florally flavors of fresh milk. 4. Do you know that in Mexico we have rose petals ice cream? - Rony: Yes, I like it a lot. It is a fresh flavor. - Davina: Yes I spent some time in Mexico actually. I wrote my thesis on immigration issues so I spent a lot of time at the US/Mexican border. There is an ice cream place near Tijuana that serves something like 50 different flavors. I had rose and hibsicus for the first time! Delicious. 5. Which is your favorite flavor? - Rony: I really love our "Haidhausen" which is lavender with blackberry swirl. I love "Nirschlhof" (our local, fair, organic grass fed milk) paired with sorbets, especially the lemon mint. And I really like coconut with Grand Cru Chocolate. 6. What inspired you to open the ice cream store? Why Munich? - Rony: My career brought me to Europe in 2004 and I started to try the Gelato, Italian style. I really liked it. I started to travel around the world learning different recipes, trying different flavors and in 2008-2009, when I meet Davina, I started to think about the possibility to open a store. Also it was amazing that Davina shared my visions because her parents always wanted to open a store, too. When I went to Bologna and I tried the ice cream I saw that everything was handmade and that also inspired me to create the handmade style. I want to offer everything natural and fresh. I want that philosophy that we will make everything on our own and better. For example our pistachio flavor. We bought the fresh pistacho, raw and directly from Sicilia. Fifty percent of the ice cream is only pistacho! We decided for Munich because we wanted our ice cream to be premium and Munich is a city that has a big premium market where people appreciate hand made ice cream. 7. Which flavor is the best seller? - It depends of how warm the day is. When it is really hot outside, lemon with mint is very popular, but also pistacho, hazelnut, happy monkey (banana with dulce de leche) and chocolate are being sold a lot. 8. Have you ever thought about a new flavor for the homemade waffle cone? - Yes we thought about the chocolate one. But is quite difficult because we would need another machine. We do not have a lot of space here and it takes two minutes and a half to make one cone. We have handmade cone and others, which are already made but with a good quality. We offer the two options for different kinds of pleasures. 9. It´s difficult to make 12 flavors everyday? How do you manage that? - Our ice cream is fresh and hand made so based in our philosophy we thought about offering only 12 flavors because when you have 30-50 they are not fresh anymore and they taste like ice. For example we make the lemon mint every 3-4 four day, it depends on whether we sell a lot. We always store the ice cream at the correct temperature between -13º C -18ºC. 10. What are the next steps for True & 12? - Good question. This question I ask myself everyday. We are thinking about opening a second store but it requieres a lot of work and we still want out ice cream to be handmade. This makes things more complicated. But let´s see how it's working out. Davina and me, we make everything. We only have one person helping us in the laboratory! This was the interview with Rony and Davina. It was impressive to hear everything about their ice cream and how they make it. Rony also invited me to see how they make their pistacho ice cream. I was curious about it and tried a little bit of the finished ice cream and it was just amazing! The smell and the taste of it were pure pistachio. I highly recommend to visit True & 12 if you really want to try excellent handmade ice cream. I hope you enjoy this post. Please comment and tell me if you also love ice cream and which is your favorite flavor.
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