Many people have heard me complain that the Boston area tends to be last on the list to get interesting new vegan products on store shelves. It was probably two years or so after I heard about Follow Your Heart soy cheese that it actually appeared anywhere in Massachusetts. And so it was with another highly touted product that I had heard about well before I found it in the Commonwealth: Temptation soy ice cream from Chicago Soy Dairy.

I first heard about Temptation on the Internet, from some folks who were native to the city it is manufactured in, Chicago. All reports were that it was top of the line stuff, and that, even better, they used organic and fair trade ingredients and were a small, completely vegan owned and run company. However, for me, the real story was this: Temptation flavors included the never-before-vegan chocolate chip cookie dough. And here I had given up on reliving my college days when I used to get sick off of trying to eat a whole pint of Ben and Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream (I know, I’m an ice cream whimp). Also very interesting was the Peach Cobbler flavor, which had also had never been available from any of the existing soy cream manufacturers.

At any rate, the long story short is that thanks mostly to the excellent work of a Whole Foods employee connection (thanks, Dan!), Temptation soy ice finally made its Beantown debut a month or so ago. For those playing at home, as of this writing it is available at the Symphony Hall and Brookline/Brighton Whole Foods, but not at any others I’ve been to (including River Street in Cambridge, Cambridge Street in Boston, and Prospect Street in Cambridge). My guess is that if it sells well enough, it should matriculate to all of the area Whole Foods. So start buying!

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