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Thanks so much for the suggestions everyone!! For the meantime I think I'm going to try rinsing the grocery store ones and if that fails I'll have some shipped. At the end of the world in Halifax (transplanted from Toronto)! Actually, that really is not fair to the city, we have some wonderful things out here and I am absolutely in love with our farmers market. Some things are just hard to access with out a car! I'm still slightly bitter about the lack of quality public transportation around here.

I love, love, love this book. The recipes are fabulous and I've never had any problems with them. I've recently made both the gianduja (sp?) gelato and the fig ice cream. My fig ice cream ended up being fig and raspberry due to a fig shortage but it was still incredibly delicious. I do however find some of the recipes to be very sweet so I often cut back on the sugar by a quarter cup or more; I haven't found this to have any negative effects. The panaforte and matcha green tea icecreams have been particular favourites of mine and the basic vanilla (the custard based one) is absolute perfection. I'd love to make the pistachio apricot icecream but I'm having a hard time finding un-salted pistachios. Does anyone know of a source that will ship to Canada? Thanks!