What's in This? Ice Cream You Can Stretch!

What's in This? Ice Cream You Can Stretch!

Constant Wonder - Radio Archive, Episode 227 , Segment 2

Episode: Forgotten Mississippi Flood, Samurai, Booza

  • Aug 8, 2019 8:00 pm
  • 14:36 mins

Guest: Michael Sadler, co-founder, The Republic of Booza Ice cream is, arguably, the most fun of all foods. But what if we could make it even more fun? For our weekly series "What's in This?", we call up  New York City’s Republic of Booza, where Jilbert El-Zmetr and Michael Sadler make and sell a traditional Eastern Mediterranean form of ice cream that stretches and twists like taffy.

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