Lavender Ice Cream

I tasted this ice cream for the first time in Florence, Italy, when I was visiting my friend Faith Willinger, of Cucina Toscana (a travel and food consulting service), who has been living there for over twenty years. Faith is one of the best spontaneous cooks I know. When you arrive at her beautiful apartment in the old city, you enter right into the large modernized dining room/kitchen and are imm