Your Guide to Authentic Regional Eats
Homestead brand ice cream, an excellent product made in Achibold, Ohio, is the Ice Cream Parlor’s stock in trade, but what makes this small corner sweet shop extra-special are its waffle cones. You smell fresh cones the moment you walk in the door, and if you look to the back of the store at the end of the freezer cases where the ice cream is kept, you will see the source of the enticing aroma: two waffle irons, steaming away, on which waffle cones are baked throughout the day. When the waffle is ready, the gent who makes them – an octogenarian who is a waffle-iron master – peels it off the grill while still hot and winds it around a conical wooden device so that it hardens in the proper form. All of this takes about three seconds from the time the waffle iron is opened, and it is a beautiful sight.
