Philadelphia Weekly - April 17th, 2008
You can keep your cakes, cookies and pies. If there�s a desert-island dessert for me, it�s undoubtedly ice cream. Mass-market brand? H�agen-Dazs. Local? Bassetts is good, but the Franklin Fountain�s is better, and Capogiro belongs in a category of its own (it is gelato, after all). The best ice cream I�ve tasted in recent memory is not technically ice cream at all. Believe me, I�m the last person in the world to recommend a faux ice cream product, but KōV frozen dessert from KōV Foods, a company based in Ardmore, is amazing and not just because it sports a multitude of fancy labels: vegan, dairy-and-soy-free, certified organic and kosher (whew!).
Unlike other faux products, this isn�t made with fake ingredients that can leave a weird chemical aftertaste, but with fresh alternative ingredients like coconut milk and agave. It currently comes in two flavors�a zippy, refreshing chocolate mint and a hot-zingy ginger vanilla. I�d be hard pressed to say which I liked better, since I ate equally copious amounts of both. Sadly, it�s no less fattening than traditional ice cream, but if you�re going to eat healthy junk, at least make it healthy junk that tastes good.
Take that, Tofutti.
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Love KōV too? Send your testimonials to You can keep your cakes, cookies and pies. If there�s a desert-island dessert for me, it�s undoubtedly ice cream. Mass-market brand? H�agen-Dazs. Local? Bassetts is good, but the Franklin Fountain�s is better, and Capogiro belongs in a category of its own (it is gelato, after all). The best ice cream I�ve tasted in recent memory is not technically ice cream at all. Believe me, I�m the last person in the world to recommend a faux ice cream product, but KōV frozen dessert from KōV Foods, a company based in Ardmore, is amazing and not just because it sports a multitude of fancy labels: vegan, dairy-and-soy-free, certified organic and kosher (whew!).
Unlike other faux products, this isn�t made with fake ingredients that can leave a weird chemical aftertaste, but with fresh alternative ingredients like coconut milk and agave. It currently comes in two flavors�a zippy, refreshing chocolate mint and a hot-zingy ginger vanilla. I�d be hard pressed to say which I liked better, since I ate equally copious amounts of both. Sadly, it�s no less fattening than traditional ice cream, but if you�re going to eat healthy junk, at least make it healthy junk that tastes good.
Take that, Tofutti.
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