{"id":16852,"date":"2014-06-30T02:54:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T09:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16852"},"modified":"2014-06-30T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:00:46","slug":"best-california-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/best-california-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"Best California Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/naticemi.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>July is National Ice Cream Month. Until 1800, ice cream remained a rare and exotic dessert enjoyed mostly by the elite. Around 1800, insulated ice houses were invented and an industry was created. Celebrate our greatness as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-milk.html\"> top producer in the nation of dairy products<\/a> that go into the creamy blends. What counts?\u00a0The most important ice cream ingredients come from milk. The dairy ingredients are crucial in determining the characteristics of the final frozen product. Federal regulations state that ice cream must have at least 10% milkfat, the single most critical ingredient. The use of varying percentages of milkfat affects the palatability, smoothness, color, texture and food value of the finished product. Gourmet or superpremium ice creams contain at least 12% milkfat, usually more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You may want to try these:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shubert&#8217;s (shuberts.com) Ice Cream Chico Family owned for 75 years<br \/>\nMcConnel&#8217;s Santa Barbara (mcconnells.com)<br \/>\nMitchell&#8217;s (mitchellsicecream.com) Ice Cream San Francisco 50 years<br \/>\nTucker&#8217;s (tuckersicecream.com) Alameda<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/buena-park-farrells.html\">Farrell&#8217;s<\/a> (farrellsusa.com) various locations<br \/>\nDr. Bob&#8217;s (drbobsicecream.com) sold in stores<br \/>\nFosselman&#8217;s (fosselmans.com) Alhambra<br \/>\nIci IceCream (ici-icecream.com) Berkeley<br \/>\nDoc Burnstein&#8217;s (docburnsteins.com) Arroyo Grande<br \/>\nMarianne&#8217;s (lovemariannes.com) Santa Cruz<br \/>\nGunther&#8217;s (gunthersicecream.com) Sacramento<br \/>\nScoops (323) 906-2649 Los Angeles<br \/>\nPappalecco (pappalecco.com) Little Italy- San Diego<br \/>\nGreat Shakes (greatshakesps.com) Palm Springs<br \/>\nThree Twins (threetwinsicecream.com) Napa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July is National Ice Cream Month. Until 1800, ice cream remained a rare and exotic dessert enjoyed mostly by the elite. Around 1800, insulated ice houses were invented and an industry was created. Celebrate our greatness as the top producer in the nation of dairy products that go into the creamy blends. What counts?\u00a0The most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}