
“This one might take the cake on this list of unique ice cream flavors!
Hay Ice Cream is the creation of Robin Mailey, chef and owner of The Callicoon Wine Merchant in the Catskills. It’s made simply with local eggs, cream, sugar and the first cut of late spring hay.
’As the hay dries in the fields, it obtains an aroma of Honey and Cinnamon. I knew it would make a great ice cream,’ says Mailey via email.”
“It’s rather surprising to be drinking Spanish Rioja and eating what is arguably the most innovative food to hit the Borscht Belt since Mel Brooks was a headliner here. You would have a hard time convincing a Manhattanite that a small town like Callicoon, in agriculturally minded Sullivan County, would be home to such a feat, but that’s because you don’t know the bar’s proprietor, chef Robin Mailey.”