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Nonna’s Nopales gnocchi in a dish

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Cornell IFT team goes to Chicago with their Nonna’s Nopales futuristic food product – gnocchi made from superfood cactus paddles.

  • Food
  • Food Science
A woman with long brown hair, wearing a freedom of expression year shirt with four multicolored quotation mark, scoops ice cream into a mans cup.

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A team of mostly first-year students created Brewing CommuniTea, an Earl Grey tea ice cream with caramel swirls and buttery shortbread pieces inspired by Cornell’s theme year.

  • Dairy
  • Food Science
Three ice cream dishes on a red table. From left to right, a pink spotted ice cream, a white gooey ice cream, and a golden white ice cream.

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From April 10-12, ice cream aficionados will get several opportunities to taste and vote on their favorite of three new student-developed flavors, crafted to help celebrate “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

  • Food Science
Four students gather around a table trying different ice cream flavors in small bowls.

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What’s Black, White and Big Red All Over? It’s a scoop of newspaper-inspired ice cream – one of four finalist flavors created by students – based on Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year.

  • Cornell Dairy
  • Food Science
  • Food
Teaching assistants scoop out the ice cream flavors and hand them to students

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Pining for ice cream? This campy mix of graham cracker swirl, fudge, toasted marshmallow flavor and berries, has won top honors in a food science class annual competition.
  • Food Science
  • Food
Looking down on someone as they eat ice cream

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Your mind wanders, enjoying a dreamy vanilla base that features apple, cinnamon, maple and tiny chunks of graham cracker. It’s just like fresh, warm apple pie à la mode – only everything is frozen. You’re going to need a bigger waffle cone. In...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Dairy