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Hey Boston! Celebrate National Ice Cream Day with Free Vice Cream!

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Vanilla ice cream with orange ripple, dark, white and milk chocolate chunks.

Happy National Ice Cream Day! One of my favorite days! Although, I celebrate by eating ice cream far more than once a year.

If you’re in Boston today, you might be able to get some free ice cream. Today, between noon and 4pm, the Vice Cream Truck will be patrolling Boston streets and walking around the areas where people are outside enjoying this beautiful summer day.

Plus, they will meet anyone who tweets “Today is National Ice Cream Day and I want @eatvicecream” along with their location.

Vice Cream truck shown at city hall plaza in Boston, ready to give out ice cream.

The Vice Cream Truck will be giving out samples of their most popular flavors: Choc of Shame, Bourbon Mash, Toffee Wife, Breakfast in Bed, Higher Grounds, Afternoon Delight and Minted while supplies last. The company also has an interesting back story.

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Vice Cream is all about unapologetic indulgence with eight super premium flavors and tagline “Live Life, Dig In.”

When Vice Cream Founder Dan Schorr was in college, he paid for school by driving a Good Humor ice cream truck during the summer. It was during those hot summer months that he saw first-hand the joy ice cream could bring people. Years later in 2015, life threw Dan a curveball when doctors told him he had cancer – an aggressive form of lymphoma.

After undergoing treatment that included chemotherapy at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Dan beat the disease and made a decision to not just live life, but indulge in it, which led him to create Vice Cream in Boston.

To Dan, ice cream is, and always should be, about unapologetic indulgence. Through the “Nice Vice” program, Vice Cream aims to bring smiles to cancer patients and their families by supporting various cancer charities nationwide, and at events like the Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl and sampling Vice Cream at hospitals.

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I haven’t tried Vice Cream — yet. I’ve been trying to be good with Halo, but I’m intrigued and may indulge at some point.

Well, as I write this, it’s close to 1pm. They only have one truck, but they will do their best to get to everyone who tweets in the 4-hour timeframe. So time to get tweeting!

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Images: L’Orange A Trois and Vice Cream Truck courtesy of Vice Cream.

Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day is April 4th!

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Stacks of upside down Ben & Jerry's ice cream cones.

What a week! Today is Opening Day for the Red Sox at Fenway.

To make things even sweeter, tomorrow is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s! Ice cream makes everything better right? And what’s better than free? Not much.

Ben & Jerry’s has locations all over the country, so find your participating store and grab a free cone tomorrow!

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Image: Ben & Jerry’s

 

All You Can Eat Fenway Franks at South Street Diner on Opening Day!

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Glass of beer next to plate with two hot dogs topped with mustard in buns.

Baseball is back! The Red Sox kick off their 2017 season tomorrow, Monday, April 3rd! Their home opener at Fenway is against the Pittsburg Pirates.

From 11am to 10pm, on Opening Day, South Street Diner (located at 178 Kneeland Street in Boston) is making the day even more special!

Come to the diner wearing your Red Sox gear and you’ll be entered to win a raffle for tickets to an upcoming game this season.

Of course the game will be on, so you can stay a while, sit back, relax and enjoy the first game. Purchase just one beer and you can eat all the steamed Fenway Franks you want.

Yup! All you can eat!

Not a bad deal. Narragansett, PBR and Miller Lite are $3.50. All other beers are $6.00, so there’s no need to break the bank.

Drink up, responsibly of course. Eat up and enjoy!

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Image: Courtesy of DPA Communications

Farm Share Fair in Somerville – Wednesday, March 29th

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Fresh, raw carrots in shades of orange of purple with the words Farm Share Fair.

If you’re looking forward to eating fresh and local this season, then you might be interested in joining a CSA.

There are many farms to choose from with different deadlines for payment. It can be confusing figuring it all out in time.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were one place that you could go where you could find out about all the farms in the Boston area offering a farm share program? Well, there is!

Farm Share Fair is happening this Wednesday, March 29th, from 5:30pm – 8:30pm, at The Armory in Somerville.

Enjoy veggies, fruit, meat, poultry, fish, honey, cheese, herbs, & flowers produced in New England.

The Farm Share Fair is Boston’s annual direct-to-consumer information event for food producers across the region.

Compare all the great Farm Share (CSA) programs available in the Boston area. Meet our fabulous local producers with distribution spots near you. We’ll have some great local food vendors and retailers too.

So if you want to support local farmers and eat fresh, then head over to Farm Share Fair!

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Image: 2017 Farm Share Fair

Every Body Yoga Tour: Jessamyn Stanley in Boston

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Young black woman doing yoga in background with text showing cities she's visiting for Every Body Yoga book tour.

Instagram star and internationally acclaimed yoga instructor Jessamyn Stanley is now also a published author.

Her new book, Every Body Yoga, will be released in April  and she’s going on tour to promote it.

Lucky for us, Boston is on her tour list and she will be speaking at Boston Public Library on Tuesday, June 6th, 6pm – 7:30pm.

Mark your calendars!

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Image: JessamynStanley.com