Dinner by Heston Blumenthal proving so popular that by November 2011, some 900 were being sold per week and the restaurant was aiming to increase production to be able to supply up to 1200 a week. During the Christmas period, the Meat Fruit is decorated to appear like a plum rather than a mandarin to accord with the holiday season. The ice cream trolley holds a contraption created by Blumenthal and his team, and constructed from Corian by Mike Smith Studio at a cost of £25,000. Powered by a hand crank, it mixes custard and liquid nitrogen to create instant ice cream at the
MadFiber Ice Cream Cream. MadFiber Ice Cream MadFiber Ice Cream is a designer ice cream created by UW-Madison's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences that features vanilla cream, mini M&M's, and granola. The dessert was part of Madison, Wisconsin's effort to bring Google's $97 million high speed optical fiber network to Madison, WI. The ice cream gained recognition outside of Madison when the New York Times made note of it in an article "Hoping for Gift From Google? Go Jump in the Lake." Proponents of the ice cream have included Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Madison Schools Superintendent, Dan Nerad, and Dean of UW-Madison's College