paletas

Ari LeVaux

A homemade paleta that’s perfect for spring

I ordered my first mangoneada because I thought it sounded vaguely like mango-lemonade, which seemed perfect on a warm day. Better Spanish speakers may have realized the word refers to an unscrupulous use of power, like graft or bribery. With my first slurp I began to see why. Mangoneadas are powerful and desirable. On a sunny day, you could bribe Satan with one.

Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com

The art and science of beating the heat, from the Far Northeast Heights to the South Valley, Philly to Michoacán

Pop-Pop’s Italian Ice

Philadelphia doesn’t jump to the top of the list of hot places in the world, but during the peak of summer it can be worse than Albuquerque thanks to its humidity and concrete. Somewhere in the streets of South Philly, the old Italian art of granita became the new science of water ice, also known as Italian ice.

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