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The new, cool foodie Dad

By On June 15, 2011 · 1 Comment

Yep. It’s this Sunday. You better get your act together. Father’s Day is Sunday, June 19, 2011.

Do people still buy ties for Dads? Or barbecue equipment? Or is that all advertising gobbly gook? More like polo shirts and ugly shorts, no? What truly is reality?

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Guess who’s coming to Wrightstown?

By On March 15, 2011 · 6 Comments

oWowCow Creamery!

The opening date isn’t set yet but the delicious, locally sourced ice creamery that started in Ottsville only two years ago will be setting up their second location at the Carousel Village on Route 413/Durham Road in Wrightstown, just miles north of Newtown.

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The year in food: Bucks County 2010 – part 2

By On January 3, 2011 · 1 Comment

It’s a new year, and surprisingly I’m in a good mood about it. I usually burrow in this time of year, grumbling about the cold and longing for the appearance of spring vegetables and baseball season. Allow me one last look at 2010, however, as we celebrate positive food trends in our neck of [...]

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Happy 1st Anniversary…sort of

By On July 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Goodnoe Farm Dairy Bar- the famous Goodnoe’s ice cream of Newtown – is celebrating their first anniversary since reopening last year. In case you missed the story, the next generation of Goodnoes, brother and sister Colin and Kendall, reopened this landmark last July 17th after a two-year break. The new store [...]

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Pity New York and New Jersey folks

By On May 3, 2010 · 8 Comments

Why? Because they have to drive so far to get raw milk, while we, here in Bucks County, have two three farms who produce raw milk, and dairy products made from raw milk like cheese, yogurt and ice cream.

In a New York magazine article dated April 18, Straight From the Cow’s Teat, [...]

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Ice cream and cake at Chubby’s

By On March 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Yum Alert. Beth Raynock, the wonderful cake decorator at Chubby’s Dairy Barn in Plumsteadville, will be holding a cake tasting this Sunday, March 28th between 1 – 4 pm to benefit charity: water, a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing [...]

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Eating ice cream in the fall

By On September 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Yes, it’s cooler outside…but that shouldn’t keep us from eating ice cream,  should it? Not when there is so much good ice cream in Bucks. Here are the fall hours of some of your favorite ice cream places in Bucks County (according to our Bucks County Taste poll). See our previous post on [...]

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Tidbits: Ice Cream at the Sundae School

By On August 20, 2009 · 1 Comment

It sounds like every child’s fantasy on an early summer day, stuck in a hot, sticky classroom. The school becomes an ice cream parlor.

That’s basically what happened at the Sundae School, a former one-room schoolhouse in Hilltown, that was converted to – praise the heavens above – an ice cream shop by [...]

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Dilly's 25th Anniversary Marathon

By On July 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Dilly’s Corner is celebrating their
25th year in a big way with a 25-hour marathon. Just like it sounds – 25 hours of eating, more or less. It starts tonight, July 23rd at 11:00 pm and ends tomorrow night, July 24th, at 12:00 am. Here’s the schedule of events:

Thursday, July 23rd, 11:00 pm:

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Goodnoe's is back!

By On July 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

As of last Friday, the ice cream “phoenix” has risen. Goodnoe’s ice cream is back, reopening in Newtown, under the managment of the next generation, Colin Goodnoe and his sister, Kendall. They are making ice cream using the family recipes in their former production facility on Silo Drive. The new store is at 4 South Sycamore Street. Stay [...]

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Let’s go for ice cream

By On July 14, 2009 · 17 Comments

Everyone has their favorite ice cream place. Usually it’s local, and maybe because it’s associated with sweetness and warm summer evenings, people tend to be fiercely loyal.

That’s why we are not going to rate ice cream purveyors in Bucks County (ha!), or even attempt to be comprehensive in our list. But for those of [...]

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