On the Thursday of Fall Break week, I decided to venture into downtown Memphis as if I was on vacation. I didn’t have the funds to rent a luxury hotel room, but I parked in an area where there was still free street parking (considerably south of downtown) and walked down G, E. Patterson Avenue toward the Central Station Hotel, which is also the Amtrak station in Memphis. But when I arrived, I noticed something new…a rather cryptic sign with an upside-down A topped with a scoop of ice cream.
It turned out to be Zia Matto Gelato, a Memphis-based gelateria offering locally-made delicious flavors of Italian ice cream. Gelato, unlike American ice cream, is not whipped with air, and therefore is extremely rich, though actually lower in calories than the American…..