Peach Melba is three things — a poached white peach, vanilla ice cream, and a raspberry purée — assembled in that order and served cold. The peach is halved, poached in vanilla syrup until just tender, and placed over the ice cream. The raspberry sauce goes over everything: strained, sweetened, slightly tart, deeply colored. There […]

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Gelato al pistacchio is a frozen dessert made from a base of whole milk, sugar, and egg yolks, churned with a paste of ground Sicilian pistachios until it reaches the dense, slow-melting consistency that distinguishes gelato from ice cream. The color, when it’s made correctly, is a muted, dusty green — not the luminous artificial […]

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