Pair that skill with a commitment to using only the finest milk available in the region and you had some of the best ice creams in the country at the time, no small feat in a state that was already spoiled with classic producers like Graeter's in Cincinnati and Handel's in Youngstown. Quickly, her flavors-both classic and wildly experimental-became her calling card. But then she went back to the drawing board, learned some things, made some experiments, and in 2002, Britton Bauer launched Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at the North Market in Columbus (where she'd made her first try). The reigning queen of modern American ice cream founded her first ice cream company way back in the mid-1990s, and it didn't succeed. The timeline of Jeni Britton Bauer's ice cream career reminds us that "if at first, you don't succeed, try, try, again" isn't just something teachers used to tell you in school.
Homemade ice cream, a vast selection of sodas, and sundaes are on offer-so is all the local gossip you can handle, which is always free of charge. The exterior has been scrubbed up nicely, but inside, it mostly feels like a trip back in time, which, if you have ever been to Wilton, Iowa, you know isn't a very long trip at all. Today, the classic sign- Candy, Soda, Lunch-beckons locals, politicians on the stump, and long-distance travelers, who happily make the short detour from I-80 for this wonderful little museum piece, operated by the Nopoulos family until just a couple of years ago, when new ownership stepped in.
In fact, the reason Gus Nopoulos and Nick Parros bought the store was the presence of a working, ready-to-go soda fountain. When two young Greek immigrants seeking a new start outside of Chicago landed in the tiny town of Wilton back in 1910, the Wilton Candy Kitchen, which we know today as one of the finest old soda fountains in Iowa, had already been around for roughly half a century.
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