A tub of Gundowring goodness
What a blessed afternoon it was when I walked into Fitzroy’s Vegetable Connection one day last year and decided to take a chance on a sustainable, local product: Gundowring ice cream.
With award-winning flavours scintillating your taste buds to blossom forth, one cannot resist the lustrous sensation that sweeps over you as a precious scoop of Gundowring goodness slowly melts in the latent warmth of your delighted mouth.
When I moved to Melbourne, it was a mission of mine to reduce my carbon footprint as much as possible. There’s something about being surrounded by grand and green gardens that somehow make you want to preserve nature as much as possible. When it comes to buying ice-cream, this is quite hard to do especially if you have to do a Hussein Bolt to prevent the ice cream from turning into a surly milk shake. However, on a particular frosty evening this is entirely possible for the worthy tub. And my, indeed it was.
A few months after, I crashed a Melbourne food fair and managed to meet Stephen Crooke. Mr Crooke, along with Sarah Crooke, is a fourth generation down-to-earth member of the Crooke family from North East Victoria’s Kiewa Valley responsible for making such heavenly concotions. As cattle farmers, this diversification into making ice cream, to me, is the best gift the Crooke family has bestowed on us.
Try everything if you can, otherwise create a bonanza of extreme satisfaction with Coconut, Vanilla, Fig, Ginger or Toasted Honey & Walnut. Bliss has never found a home as comforting as this.
