All summer Will Gilson, chef at Cambridge's Garden at the Cellar (one of my favorites in the neighborhood) is cooking at a pop-up restaurant at Adrian's out in North Truro, Massachusetts. That's special enough on its own, but if you get there on August 19, you're in for an extra special treat as our buddies at the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck will be by, serving their signature creations from 1 p.m. until they run out out of a pop-up Ice Cream Shoppe. More

With approximately 40 farms, 125 miles of coastline, and a community whose interest in and support for eating good food is constantly growing, Martha's Vineyard has never been a better place to take in a meal. Here, we give you our regular haunts for diner breakfasts, picnic lunches, ice cream breaks, fine-dining dinners—and everything in between. More

Suckers vs. lollipops, subs vs. hoagies. It's these regional differences in food nomenclature that can drive endless discussions. But what about those colorful bits of sugar that decorate your ice cream cone? Whether you like them as rainbow as a pride flag, or in shades of chocolate only, do you call them jimmies or sprinkles? Take the poll! » More

Between 5 and 10 p.m. today you can get a 2.5-ounce ice cream scoop for 31 cents at participating Baskin Robbins locations in honor of 31-Cent Scoop Night. $100,000 of the proceeds will go to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Grab your quarter, nickel, and penny and head to a location near you! More

It comes but once a year: Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's. If you're near a participating location on Tuesday, March 23, between noon and 8 p.m., wait in line (likely one that snakes around the block, but moves fairly quickly) and get your free scoop! Find a Ben & Jerry's near you here. If you're lucky, they'll have some of the new 2010 flavors. More

Pasta-making machines and single-serve sundaes from Sandro Desii. [Photographs: Sight Unseen] The website Sight Unseen takes us all along on a photo tour of the Sandro Desii factory, where Sandro Desii and his small crew manufactures artisanal pastas and ice cream. The photo essay gives an inside look at the factory, the pasta-making process, and the personality behind the products.... More

McSweeney's Internet Tendency has a silly item that riffs on the "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?" ad campaign: "Ethical Dilemmas Involving Klondike Bars." Example: You operate an orphanage and your funding has just been slashed. Kids are now going without dessert. Your friend owns a grocery store and is willing to donate 500 Klondike bars to the orphans if you lie and tell the government that he donated 1,000. What would you do-o-o? I was a little disappointed that there was no scenario involving a terrorist, his baby, a crowded stadium with a bomb planted in it, and a Klondike Bar. [via The Morning News; photograph: klondikebar.com]... More

Note: Each week, one of our various Market Scene correspondents from around the country checks in with what's fresh at the farmstands in a particular region. Today, Penny Cherubino (Boston Zest) drops by from Boston. The Brookline Farmers Market has been a part of the Coolidge Corner shopping experience for thirty-one years. It's a place of full-flavor shopping with produce, cheese, eggs, ice cream, bakery, specialty foods, beef, turkey, pork, lamb, and fish vendors. It's a busy market, with long lines forming at favorite vendors like Clear Flour Bakery. This family-operated, artisan bakery specializes in creating the authentic breads of Italy, France and Germany. Clear Flour always appears in any list of the best bakeries in the Boston area.... More

On the kiddie ice cream totem pole, the Superman flavor is pretty high up there, somewhere near bubblegum and cookie dough. But the poor squirts who don't live in or near Michigan probably haven't experienced the red-blue-yellow trio of creamy goodness. Our recent Superman ice cream post inspired Quinn of the Michigan culture blog The Mitten to cruise around the Ann Arbor-area and get to the bottom of this dessert enigma. What's the Michigan connection? Where exactly does the "blue" flavor come from? According to Jim and Forrest Karnopp of Cafe Luwak in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Detroit-based Stroh Brewery stopped making beer during prohibition and segued to ice cream, bringing Superman ice cream into this world. But to this day,... More

Photograph from Very Culinary Amy at VeryCulinary.com has this great shot of a summer root beer float. While I confess I've never been a fan—that weirdly stable soda-milk foam just creeps me out—my little brother used to go crazy over these things. Barq's root beer and Dreyer's vanilla bean ice cream were his standbys, but I bet there are better ones out there. Serious Eaters, any root beer float lovers out there? What are your ingredients of choice?... More