Hans Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 Now that I have your attention... We've all heard about Balanchine giving a different perfume to each ballerina. This thread does the same thing, but with ice cream You don't have to make up a cute name for your flavor, though they are welcome and male dancers are included. Examples, courtesy of carbro : Jose Carreno: coffee with a caramel swirl Angel Corella: tart and lemony Julie Kent: vanilla chocolate chip It'll probably make us all hungry, but such fun Link to comment
Giannina Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 I have no imagination at all, but... Cojocaru: rich,silky smooth vanilla that goes with everything. Giannina Link to comment
Lovebird Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 Darcey Bussell- English Toffee Sylvie Guillem- Cherry Diana Vishneva-Raspberry Svetlana Zakharova-Vanilla Lucia Lacarra- Banana Tamara Rojo- Blueberry Link to comment
Hans Posted September 17, 2003 Author Share Posted September 17, 2003 Asylmuratova: cinnamon ice cream with caramel Nilas Martins: cookie dough Miranda Weese: lemon ice Link to comment
Manhattnik Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 Farrell: Coffee P. Martins: Vanilla McBride: Cherry Vanilla Tomasson: Chocolate Whelan: Dulce de Leche Nichols: Mocha Kistler: Tutti Frutti Meunier: Mango Ice Bouder: New York Super Fudge Chunk Somogyi: Cherry Boal: Boysenberry sorbet N. Martins: Frozen Tapioca Borree: Creme Brulee (cracked) LeClerq: Amaretto Ansanelli: Lemon ice Taylor: Black Cherry (served flambé) Villella: Spumoni (you were expecting something else?) Watts: Fireworks (a Stewarts' flavor whose featured ingredient is Pop Rocks -- remember those?) Verdy: Pistachio Ananiashvili: Cherry Garcia Bocca: Tamarind ice Gregory: Peach Melba Fonteyn: Devonshire Cream (frozen) Nureyev: Chunky Monkey Dvorovenko: Peppermint Hot Fudge Sundae with a Cherry on Top Belotserkovsky: Orange sorbet Sofiane Sylve: Ginger Kent: Green Tea Pavlenko: Any Damn Flavor She Wants Volochkova: Every Damn Flavor She Wants Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 The whole Volochkova/Bolshoi mishigass: Nut Fudge. Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 Oh, Mel, I think I would have to nominate Volochkova for Rocky Road! Link to comment
Hans Posted September 17, 2003 Author Share Posted September 17, 2003 Manhattnik, I think I'll be laughing for days Link to comment
Alexandra Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 We'll have to open a rival chain to Baskin Robbins -- perhaps we can send bouquets of ice cream cones instead of flowers? -- and Manhattnik will have to be the Big Dipper That's a lovely list! Link to comment
sz Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 Gelsey Kirkland - Heavenly Hash or Rocky Road Link to comment
Hans Posted September 17, 2003 Author Share Posted September 17, 2003 sz, that is perfect! Here are some more... Sylvie Guillem: Death by Chocolate Alessandra Ferri: cherry mocha with hot fudge Link to comment
carbro Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Some very clever, very witty ones in here. I am awestruck by Manhattnik's inspired list. Simply awestruck. M'nik has the soul of a poet. My modest contribution: Suzanne Farrell as Champagne sorbet with a discreet drizzle of dark chocolate sauce with orange bits. I imagine X. Reyes as a scoop of Vanilla Carvel (soft ice cream, for our non-US readers) with butterscotch syrup, chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, lots of whipped cream, several cherries and fistsful of nuts. Oh, and colored sprinkles/jimmies. People said she looked good at the Met, though, this past spring, so I may have to come back and eat my words. Link to comment
Juliet Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Sorry, but Wendy Whelan is Pistachio. I cannot possibly top Nilas Martins as Cookie Dough..... Link to comment
Brioche Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Elizabeth Loscavio - Rocky Road (actually, it's her favorite) Link to comment
Nanatchka Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Verdy has to be a green ice cream, because of pun on her name, and because she danced Emeralds. (Would this be right, Manhattnik?) But why is Nichols mocha? Is that your favorite ice cream? In which case. all is forgiven. Otherwise, why not peach? Link to comment
Hans Posted September 19, 2003 Author Share Posted September 19, 2003 Verdy could be mint. :yes: Link to comment
carbro Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Thanks to Hans for mentioning this thread in a note to me! I think we can add a few folks to the list. Ashley Bouder: A creamsicle, both smooth and tangy, with contrasting textures. (Just in case they no longer make creamsicles -- I haven't seen one in ages -- they were orange sherbert with vanilla ice cream inside on a stick). Marcelo Gomes as a make-your-own sundae. Whatever your ice cream desires are, he can fill the bill! Link to comment
Marga Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Karen Kain -- Maple Walnut (the most popular ice cream flavour in Canada) Link to comment
drb Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 ...Sylvie Guillem- Cherry Diana Vishneva-Raspberry ... With all due respect, Diana is Cherry. And given her recent performances, make that Cherries Jubilee*! Just plug her name ВИШНЕВОЙ into Babelfish to see why: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ * Escoffier's original recipe (for Q. Victoria): CHERRIES JUBILEE (Original Version) Simmer some fine stoned cherries in syrup. Drain them, put them into little silver, fireproof porcelain or glass ovenproof dishes. Pour the syrup into which they have cooked over them, after boiling it down and addiing to it a little cornstarch or arrowroot diluted with cold water. Then pour into each dish a tablespoon of warmed kirsch and set flame to it at the moment of serving." The original version had no ice cream. A few years later Escoffier invented Peche Melba, which did. And so, God Save the Queen, this progress from the Empire: CHERRIES JUBILEE (Modern Version) Pour the juice from a pint jar of pitted Bing cherries into the top pan, or blazer, of a chafing dish. Place the pan directly over the flame and bring the juice to the boil. Thicken it with 1/2 teaspoon arrowroot dissolved in a little cold water and then add the cherries. Stir the cherries in the sauce until they are heated through. Pour over the cherries 2 ounces of kirsch and set aflame. Serve the flaming cherries and sauce over a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Quotes from Historian J.J. Schnebel at http://members.cox.net/jjschnebel/cherries.html Link to comment
Hans Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 Ekaterina Osmolkina: Cherry-vanilla with brandy. Smooth and sweet, with a (180º) kick! Larissa Lezhnina: peach sorbet with a mint leaf. Gillian Murphy: Rhubarb. Link to comment
bart Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I'm strictly a dark chocolate person nowadays, so I can't come up with any references. There aren't many of those rich, complex dancers, voluptuous in movement, around anymore. I only know that back when I was a teenager, my favorite ice cream flavor was mint chocolate chip (served at Howard Johnson's, a kind of suburban teenage hangout bak in those days, something like Starbucks with food). My favorite NYCB dancer by far at that time was Melissa Hayden. So I've always associated the two. Link to comment
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