Caribbean Style Icecream

Last weekend I spent a little time in Brooklyn with a friend and children’s book artist, Javaka Steptoe, who introduced me to Caribbean Style Ice cream.

So, the owner, Robert, makes home-made ice cream using natural ingredients. The ice cream was really, really good. I hope I can find the same business in the Bronx…but what I like the best was their customer service. Robert made small talk with everyone who came to buy and allowed you to taste and try.

Hopefully I can visit again in the near future and get some more!

Kennedy Fried Chicken and Pizza

 

Only when I am very hungry and have no other food choices to make, do I go to chicken joints. The food is so greasy and pre-cooked, there is no way I can crave for it.  Their prices are low which is probably why they stay in the neighborhood. If people would just make healthier choices, then maybe there would be better quality restaurants in our neighborhoods.

Funny, all of sudden the government is concern about our health. Telling people to work-out and bashing fast foods, yet, every time I go into a poor neighborhood, I see the same thing: Chinese restaurants, chicken joints and pizza shops galore.  Papa John’s and Little Caesars seem the same. I don’t understand the argument. Is one really better than the other? Why can’t the government put their money where their mouths are and put healthy restaurants with low prices in poor neighborhoods?