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
Oyster ice cream the 23rd Oyster Festival in Arcata Main Street, which took place in June 2013. Oyster ice cream Oyster ice cream is a flavour of ice cream. Its existence has been attested since 1842. Described as having a savoury taste, the ice cream flavour has been offered at a number of oyster festivals. It was previously thought that eating oysters and ice cream together would be no good for one's health; some investigators in the 1930s claimed that this belief was unfounded. Oyster ice cream was already in existence as early as 1824, when a recipe for it was given in