| Jeni Britton Bauer first encountered ice cream as a medium while studying art at The Ohio State University. "I realized that most of the experience of flavor is actually scent," she says. "Cream is a perfect carrier of scent—from vanilla to coffee, chocolate, mint, and even strawberry, scent permeates cream and gets locked in until it's released when it warms on your tongue." She was immediately hooked, and dropped out of college to pursue ice cream full-time. She tweaked her original recipes, aiming to raise the bar with quality ingredients, eventually founding her eponymous company, Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams, in 2002. Read more... |
