Dropped Ice Cream Cone
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Two-thirds of Capitol Hill’s ice cream entrepreneurs were on KUOW Friday talking about their product, their businesses and whatever Steve Scher got around to asking. Molly Moon Neitzel and Josh Reynolds proved quite coherent and made good guests on the program. You can catch the full interview here.

It’s a mostly silly episode but just listening to people talk about ice cream in this weather is cooling. There is a pretty good exchange around 15 minutes in where Josh explains the coincidence of his shop opening in the neighborhood not long after Molly Moon’s. A little tension there?

Surprisingly, no callers took Molly Moon to task for her use of Snoqualmie Gourmet for her ice cream mix which seems to come up here in comments almost every post. Just to set the record straight, frequent ‘Molly Moon uses mix’ commenters, thanks for your input but the amazing flavors and the finished product are what MM is about. It’s a local and super delicious mix. But you can leave a comment anyway.

Locally Made Ice Cream

07/31/2009 at 9:00 a.m.

It’s a hot sunny summer day and you sure could use a waffle cone filled with meltingly delicious….blue cheese ice cream? You’re in luck! Seattle is now filled with gourmet, handcrafted, locally made ice cream shops purveying an assortment of unusual and not–so–unusual flavors. Today on “Weekday,” we’ll taste some of the offerings. What are your favorite flavors? Who’s your local ice cream shop?

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Guest(s)

Molly Moon Neitzel is the owner of Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream, which has two locations — in Wallingford and Capitol Hill.

Heidi Gates is the manager of Poco Carretto, a gelato stand owned by Café Juanita which comes to several Seattle Farmer’s Markets.

Josh Reynolds is one of the owners of Bluebird Café and Ice Cream Parlor in Capitol Hill.

Tom Durchman is the owner of Empire Ice Cream, which comes to several Seattle Farmer’s Markets.