July marks summer temperatures heating up, evening sunshine seemingly lasting forever, and lines at local ice cream shops stretching down the street.

It's summer, and all over America, temperatures are rising. What better way to beat the heat than with ice cream? These days, there are endless flavor combinations for ice cream lovers to try. But in terms of being tried and true,

These drive-thru desserts might taste dreamy, but they’re not technically ice cream. See what you’re really slurping!

With its colorful mural and yellow-and-white striped awning on a North Center residential street, Bartleby’s Homemade Ice Cream is a “funky, friendly, community-centered space” serving classic hand-dipped cones, sundaes and shakes.

It's safe to say that my tastes have grown, and my go-to is vanilla ice cream. Go ahead, call me "vanilla"—I'll take it as a compliment! Vanilla ice cream is luxurious, subtle, and delicious. There's no frozen treat as reliably delicious.

The quintessential ice cream flavour is under threat, and many other dessert staples along with it, according to climate change researchers.

Modern dessert trends come and go, but some ice cream shops never stop doing things the old-fashioned way. These places still swirl milkshakes by hand, serve scoops in glass dishes, and welcome guests with the same vintage charm they’ve had for decades.

The only thing more satisfying in summer than just-churned vanilla ice cream that leaves a little pool of vanilla beans at the bottom of a bowl, is well, another kind of ice cream.

Think about summer on Long Island, and ice cream immediately comes to mind. In the Hamptons and on the North Fork, there are scoop shops serving ice cream and other kid-pleasing confections. From sticky fingers and sugary lips,