ice-cream

Munich ice shop faces €10,000 wasp sting

An elderly woman is suing an ice cream shop in Munich for €10,000 after she fled from a swarm of wasps and fell over a step on its premises.

Food and Drink

Will a German be 2014's King Cone?

Ice cream makers from around the world will gather in the Italian city of Rimini to exhibit their creations at the 'Gelato World Tour' this weekend, with three Germans in the finals.

Food and Drink

How to make ice cream fit for a German prince

With temperatures set to hit highs of 34C in Germany this weekend, food writer Nadia Hassani looks at how to make a very special ice cream and the man it was named after - a womanizing 19th Century nobleman.

summer

'Pear and parmesan' is ice cream of the year

Pear and parmesan has been named ice cream flavour of 2014, just in time for spring. Stallholders have raised eyebrows about this year's more left-field choice.

Crime

'Ice cream parlour killer' chopped up two men

The owner of a Viennese ice cream parlour admitted on Monday to killing her German husband and then a lover - shooting them, cutting up their bodies with a chainsaw and concreting them into the basement of her shop.