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  • Unilever Will Build Turkish Ice-Cream Plant for $100 Million

    Unilever Will Build Turkish Ice-Cream Plant for $100 Million

    Unilever Plc will build a new plant in central Turkey at an initial cost of about $100 million to make ice-cream and help boost its leading position in the market, the company said today.

    The plant, owned by Unilever’s Turkish unit, will produce Algida ice-creams, which has a 70 percent share in the Turkish market that grew 28 percent to 134 million liters, or 945 million liras ($565 million), in 2010, the company said in an e- mailed statement to Bloomberg. The plant will be built near the central Turkish city of Aksaray, it said.

    Unilever’s ice-cream plant in Corlu, near Istanbul, has an annual capacity of 200 million liters, the statement said.

    Unilever, which is also producing personal care products, expects 1.2 billion euros ($1.7 billion) of sales in Turkey this year, Izzet Karaca, Unilever’s head in charge of Turkey, said in an interview on July 5.

    To contact the reporter on this story: Ercan Ersoy in Istanbul eersoy@bloomberg.net.

    To contact the editor responsible for this story: Benedikt Kammel at bkammel@bloomberg.net.

    via Unilever Will Build Turkish Ice-Cream Plant for $100 Million – Bloomberg.

  • A Soft Spot for Turkish Goat-Milk Ice Cream

    A Soft Spot for Turkish Goat-Milk Ice Cream

    By FLORENCE FABRICANT

    Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
    Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

    The very notion of goat-milk ice cream is uncommon enough. But Sophia Brittan, below, churns into even more exotic territory with her Turkish-style goat-milk ice cream at Victory Garden, in Greenwich Village.

    Street vendors in Istanbul sell ice cream called dondurma that they work into improbably elastic strands, almost like mozzarella, thanks to the addition of salep, a wild orchid root. Ms. Brittan’s version comes in three flavors: vanilla, herbal and, the sweetest of the three, mastic, a kind of natural gum used in the eastern Mediterranean.

    For her soft-serve goat-milk ice cream, without salep, the flavors include herbs with pistachio, rose, tangy plain and mastic, in addition to dark chocolate, vanilla, coffee and salted caramel. Sundaes with herb, nut and flower toppings are also sold.

    Victory Garden, 31 Carmine Street (Bleecker Street); (212) 206-7273. Turkish-style dondurma ice cream is $5 for a serving. Soft-serve goat-milk ice creams are $3 for mini, $4.50 for regular and $5.25 for large with a topping.

    via A Soft Spot for Turkish Goat-Milk Ice Cream – Food Stuff – NYTimes.com.