Caramel Ice Cream

Caramel ice cream? It might be my favorite. Years ago at the now forgotten, mythical restaurant Girardet (near Lausanne in Switzerland), I tasted a caramel ice cream unlike any I had ever experienced. It was almost burnt, just on the edge, so that bitterness countered the sweetness in a manner that I found extraordinary. That velvety scoop of caramel ice cream might have been the best dessert—no, the best morsel of food—I had ever tasted. It lingered in a fashion that made it easy to conjur