Ben and Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream and Dessert Book - Ben R. Cohen

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Tells the story of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company, and shares recipes for chocolate, fruit, and other flavors of ice cream, sorbets, sundaes, and sauces.





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Author's product rating:   Ben and Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream and Dessert Book - Ben R. Cohen - rated by lukemillo1

Degree of Information Very high 
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How interesting was the book? Compelling 
Would you read it again? Absolutely 
Value for money Excellent 

Advantages: very tasty
Disadvantages: get fat

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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WHAT THEY DO
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Ben and Jerry's is a well-known and very popular brand of ice cream that can be found in most stores, this is because they have unique tastes and very unique flavours of ice cream.

HOW IT ALL STARTED
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Back in 1966, in a school gym class, two boys met Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield found that they both hated running but loved food.
In 1978, Ben got fired from a series of Mc Jobs while Jerry had failed for the second time to get into medical school.
Since eating was their great passion, armed with a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making, they opened their first scoop shop in a dilapidated gas station in Burlington, Vermont. How is that for luxury ice cream?
They soon became popular in the local community for the finest all natural ice cream made from fresh Vermont milk and cream. Yummy!!
Ben had no sense of taste so he relied on what he called 'mouth feel', so big chunks of chocolate, fruit and nut became their signature. And I am glad about that!
While they disagreed at times over the chunk size, they did agree that they wanted to enjoy themselves - as Jerry put it 'if it's not fun, why do it?' motto out there.
In the early days the boys were pretty bad at bookkeeping. After two months they closed the store and hung a sign that said 'we're closed to figure out whether we're making any money'. And they weren't. But they learned a lot and by 1979, began wholesaling pints of ice cream out of Ben's VW campervan. The rest, as they say, is history.

RANGE OF ICE CREAM
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Ben and Jerry's have 17 different flavours of ice cream currently on sale in UK shops but at home in America they have many many more. These include fair trade, low fat and sorbet.

Baked Alaska- Vanilla ice cream with marshmallow swirls, and white chocolaty polar bears.

Strawberry cheesecake- Strawberry cheesecake ice cream with strawberries and cookie swirls

Fish food- chocolate ice cream with marshmallow, caramel swirls, and fish shaped chocolate chunks

Fossil food- sweet cream ice cream with chocolate cookie pieces, chocolaty dinosaurs and a swirl of chocolate fudge

Half baked- chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice creams with fudge brownies and chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough

Chocolate fudge brownie- chocolate ice cream with chocolate brownie pieces

Cookie dough- vanilla ice cream with chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough

Caramel chew chew-swirls of caramel and chocolate covered caramel chunks in caramel ice cream

Bohemian raspberry- vanilla ice cream with swirls of raspberry and fudge brownies

Vanilla- plain and simple vanilla

Vanilla toffee crunch- vanilla ice cream with chocolaty covered toffee crunch

Chunky monkey- banana ice cream with walnuts and chocolaty chunks of banana

Strawberry cheesecake low fat - Frozen yoghurt with strawberries and oatmeal cookie pieces.

Cherry Garcia low fat- Frozen yoghurt with cherries and dark chocolate chunks

Chocolate fudge brownie low fat- Frozen yoghurt with chocolate brownie pieces

Jamaican me crazy- pineapple sorbet with passion fruit swirls

Mango berry swirl- mango sorbet with chunks of mango swirled with mixed berry sorbet

NOW DECIDE WHICH ONE YOU WOULD HAVE IF YOU COULD ONLY HAVE ONE.... HARD ISN'T IT.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
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As there are so many different types of ice cream I haven't written all of the nutritional information but here is the average values. I warn you if you are trying to lose weight or diet or don't want to know look away now.


NORMAL SIZE IS 500ML per pot

Calories 1250 kcal -1330kcal
Fat 65g - 70g
Of which saturated 40g -40g
Sodium 0.4mg -375mg
Carbohydrates 155g -160g
Of which sugars 115g -125g
Dietary fibre 0g -7.5g
Protein 20g -20g

FREE ICE CREAM
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Every year since Ben and Jerry have been running there ice cream business they have given away free ice cream on there birthday lucky for you the 29th of April is there birthday so if you live near a Ben and Jerry's ice cream parlour between 1pm and 5pm you can get a free ice cream. To find out if you local outlet is involved in this go to http://www.benjerry.co.uk/onlinescoopshop/locator. php?scoop=4

THE WEBSITE
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The website is very useful it tells you all about Ben and Jerry and how things started, what they are planning on doing, new flavours that they will be releasing and old flavours that have long gone, there is also a page where you can create your own style of ice cream and send it to them and if you are lucky and it is good you may have your flavour on a shelf near you.
The website also has a gift shop where you can buy merchandise.

FAIRTRADE
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In 2006, Ben and Jerry's launched the world's first ever Fairtrade vanilla ice cream. Aside from its great taste, the vanilla ice cream offers a real difference to the lives of the farmers who produce its vanilla and sugar in India and Paraguay. YAY

The premium they pay for these ingredients enables the farmers to make positive steps towards providing basic needs for their families and communities such as healthcare, education and safe housing. ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW YOU ARE HELPING

While it's not yet possible to convert all our flavours to Fair-trade certified status, we're working on the ones we can.

'Fair-trade is about making sure people get their fair share of the pie. The whole concept of fair-trade goes to the heart of our values and the sense of right and wrong. Nobody wants to buy something that was made by exploiting somebody else.' - Jerry Greenfield (JERRY)

MORALS
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Every year Ben and Jerry's learn how to recycle more of our solid waste. Back in 1998, they recycled 53%, which actually saved them $66,000! In the offices, green guidelines mean that they recycle, use energy efficient light bulbs and where possible, use 100% renewable energy.

FREE RANGE EGGS

Since they use a lot of eggs they have decided to make the chickens happy, happier chickens better eggs this means that the chickens that Ben and Jerry use are free range chickens with lots of space to move around in.

PACKAGING
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The tubs can be easily spotted in any line of ice cream and have a bright and colourful design depending on the flavour that is inside, this always catches my eye even though it isn't for the best when you are trying to stay nice and fit. You may think that this means the packaging is bad for the environment, you would be wrong there, here what they have to say

"Being a frozen product does give us challenges on packaging. While we've stripped our tub down to be as friendly as we can make it (it's made from 90% renewable paper stock), the sad truth is that to stop it leaking, we have to coat it with polyethylene which renders it difficult to recycle in the normal fashion." BEN

SO ALL IN ALL I THINK THAT BEN AND JERRY'S IS THE BEST ICE CREAM AROUND AND YOU WOULD BE SILLY NOT TO BUY IT. ALL THE DIFFERENT FLAVOURS, I MIGHT HAVE TO EAT ALL OF THEM ONE DAY WHILST ON A TREADMILL TO KEEP THE WEIGHT DOWN THOUGH.

on this as no Ben and Jerry in general and offer would of already happened by time one is created

If you can think of any more information that you would like me to add please mail me and I will put it in thanks for reading LUKE 

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