GFbird: Victory Garden (Manhattan)

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Victory Garden (Manhattan)

It's hot. You need ice cream. If you're in Manhattan, I'd run on over to Victory Garden. Located on Carmine St. between Bleecker and Bedford in the West Village, Victory Garden sells delicious goat milk soft serve, in interesting seasonal flavors.

I recommend the salted caramel and their "In the Land of Carob and Honey", which I think they should just call "cardamom" because that's the only thing I could taste.

I'd never had goat milk ice cream before and this one, at least, was exceptionally smooth and creamy. Also? Not crazy expensive, as I expected this artisanal, locally sourced product to be.

And - hooray for us! - they also sell gluten-free brownies and cookies from Las Delicias!

The peanut butter swirl one is my fav

Victory Garden is located at 31 Carmine St. (between Bleecker and Bedford).

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I was always an avid home cook and restaurant-goer. From my teens on, my idea of "going out" generally involved some form of social eating. I grew up with a huge extended family that regularly dined together and I was in the kitchen helping my grandmother from an early age.

I often joke that I come from deli royalty, as my family owned one in Brooklyn for almost 30 years - so there was always a ton of good food around. Seemed only natural when I started working in restaurants in my early teens, though an accident with a dull knife and my left index finger ended my back of the house aspirations along the way. I've had pretty much every front of the house position at all types of venues, including a few years at Moosewood Restaurant. In my mid-20's, I started to work in healthcare, and have always maintained a love of food and eating well. In 2010, I melded my passions for health and food by completing a master's in public health nutrition.

After being diagnosed with celiac and DH back in 2003, I didn't go out to eat for three years! I don't even remember how long it was before I felt competent enough in the kitchen again to be a gf hostest with the mostest. But that was 10 years ago; I've changed along with the gf product/knowledge landscape. Back in NYC after many years in upstate NY, I'm committed to having a social eating life again, dishing up good eats at home and enjoying what gf vittles NYC has to offer. As any gf person can appreciate, this involves a fair amount of research and planning. Seems a shame to keep all that I've learned to myself; hence this blog.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Victory Garden (Manhattan)

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