The history of ice cream is long and sweet. Throughout ancient history, civilizations from Egypt to Pompei, from Tang Dynasty China to the Incan Empire all managed to realize that ice (most often ...

Republic of Booza, a new Williamsburg ice-cream joint, is taking the frozen treat back to its roots. Booza, a type of ice cream that originated in the eastern part of the Mediterranean more than 500 ...

“So is this really not a bar? I really thought it was,” says a perplexed man sporting salt-and-pepper hair and a faded maroon shirt. He was walking around the neighborhood with his wife and young ...

ANA UHIBB, ANTA TUHIBB, nahnu jami’aan nuhibb al-booza! Isn’t that what the kids say these days? It should be. (The phrase is Arabic for I scream, you scream, we all scream for booza!) Booza is a ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Brooklyn now boasts an ice cream parlor that's packed with booza. The shop is the first of its kind in the United States. But what's booza? "We like saying that booza is like ...

From creamy fior de latte to slushy-like sorbet, ice cream comes not only in many flavors but textures too. Typically, varying ratios of air, fat, and ice influence the consistency. However, in the ...

Republic of Booza's stretchy Middle Eastern ice cream is no longer just in Williamsburg. Republic of Booza took Brooklyn by storm when it opened in 2018. Now, a spring/summer roster of experimental ...

If you scream for ice cream, it's perhaps because you haven't tried booza. The frozen treat, also known as stretchy ice cream, originated in Syria and is commonly served in Palestine, Israel and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa is a writer based in Brooklyn. You may not be able to get a seat at some top Brooklyn restaurants, but you can taste a ...

Middle Eastern booza (and its Turkish counterpart dondurma) is the showboat of the ice cream world. It has the flexibility of Gumby, a dessert you can stretch, bend, and do acrobatic things with.

As he travelled through the Middle East last year, Jilbert El-Zmetr, 30, spent much of his time eating delicacies such as nougats, pistachio treats and sesame-based biscuits. But it was the region's ...