The Ice Creamist
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We Are a Safe Place For All - A Letter From Founder Kim Malek
At the request of our team, we wanted to share the following letter that was sent to our company earlier this week from our founder. As a community, we hope...
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Own a limited-edition work of ice cream art!
We believe that ice cream can be more than delicious, it can be an ambassador of many things, from pure happiness and family stories to farmer’s markets and fine art—which...
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Celebrating 5 Years on NE Alberta
To the amazing Salt & Straw family, Five years ago, we opened our first scoop shop in Portland’s iconic Art’s District on NE Alberta Street. This dynamic neighborhood reflects so...
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Bittered Ice Cream
Our May limited-edition ice cream menu features a couple of flavors in both Portland and Los Angeles that highlight an unusual ingredient for ice cream....bitters! Bitters adds pizzazz to cocktails,...
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Elementary School Inventor Series
This month’s menu is a little different than most and one of our favorite menus to create each year. We worked with elementary schools around Portland and Los Angeles to...
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The Universe IV - Part III
The simple and determined dot of Ice Cream had grown to the size of 14 or so Jupiters in 100,000 short light years (we’ll say), when from the southern hemisphere...
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The Universe IV – Part II
The life span of ice cream is generally 8 to 11 months in a home freezer on Earth, depending on the temperature fluctuations that regularly occur as it is taken in and out of its natural habitat. Under these conditions, the ice cream melts and freezes and melts and refreezes, causing ice crystals to grow and spread, causing an unsatisfying cold burning effect on the tongue and breathe if you were to eat it. -
The Universe IV - Part I
For the last four years, our very own Rudy Speerschneider, Ice Cream Maker Extraordinaire and amazing artist, has created a very special ice cream flavor for us called The Universe....
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Fruitcake and 1,000 Bikes
Each year our Congressman from Oregon, Earl Blumenauer, personally bakes hundreds of fruitcakes for the holiday season and hand delivers them to friends and associates throughout Portland. They call the...
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Urban Gleaners
We are so proud to be partnering with Urban Gleaners this holiday season. When you buy a pint of our Thanksgiving flavors, we'll donate one to their Food to Schools...
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Trick or Treat: Our October Spooktacular Menu!
October is here, Fall is here, short days, good tv, basketball practice, wool blankets, blood moons... Happy Halloween boys and ghouls! I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and have...
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Ride Connection
We’ve been celebrating the opening of TriMet’s new Orange Line all month long with a special flavor in our Portland scoop shops dedicated to the Orange Line called Bitter Orange...