But she also experiments with surprising new flavors, offering a range of 50 from the small workshop she runs with just 12 staff such as grapefruit and ginger, pineapple with six spices and ceylon tea with crystallized bergamot peel.
“We listen to the customers and hear what they want. Spices are very fashionable at the moment for example.”
Like Pole Sud, her ice-creams contain only natural ingredients — no artificial colorings, preservatives or chemical additives.
“You just need good fruit and ingredients. There is no trickery involved. Fruits are a gift from nature, but they are very fragile,” she said.
Even Berthillon, the venerable Parisian home of three generations of ice-cream maker, has jazzed up its flavors.
US actress Jodie Foster, who reportedly always drops in for a beloved raspberry sorbet on her visits here, could also choose among such novelties as earl grey, or praline and pine nut ice-cream, or lemon and thyme sorbet.
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