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Not All Ice Cream Is Created Equal — Why Atelait Is Different People ask us all the time, usually somewhere between meeting the sheep and taking their first bite: "What makes your ice cream different?" It's a fair question. There's a lot of ice cream out there, and plenty of it calls itself "artisan" or "handcrafted." So pull up a chair, and let me give you the honest answer. We Raise the Animals. We Produce the Milk. We Make the Ice Cream. That one sentence is the whole stor

It all starts with the ingredients. We do not use preservatives or other artificial ingredients. Our French custard base uses sheep's milk, a uniquely creamy, indulgent milk which is also lactose friendly. It also includes eggs from the free range chickens on our ranch at Mesta Meadows. Then we add pure vanilla, sugar, corn syrup, and natural fruits which we source locally or regionally. It is a more expensive approach, one that takes time, attention to detail. It is a proc