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? Häagen-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? Häagen-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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