La Grotta’s Kitty Travers, famed for her dazzling fruity flavours, shares her secrets
Ice-cream is often called a nostalgia food, but it doesn’t feature in any particularly evocative childhood memories for Kitty Travers, apart from sucking the toes of a Funny Feet. Her formative ice-cream years came later in Italy, Lonely Planet guide in hand, visiting “all the ice-cream parlours in all the towns”. She was hooked. Fifteen years since she first made it professionally, and 10 years since she started her own business, La Grotta Ices, she still loves it.
For those in the know, Travers, 41, an ex-St John pastry chef, makes some of the best ices in the country – but in tiny amounts, available from just three London shops and, on sunny Saturdays, from her Piaggio van in Bermondsey’s Spa Terminus market. Her debut cookbook is set to bring her wider acclaim.
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