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Eating ice cream isn’t just a summer season highlight; it’s practically a birthright. If you’re a ninth-generation, lifelong East Hampton resident like Tom Cooper, you’re not too far from that.
The Sweet Spot — specializing in pull-your-own soft serve — opened this Memorial Day weekend offering cool confections sure to please kids and adults alike. Whether you keep it classic with a good ol’ vanilla soft serve or venture for a cup full of cotton candy and bubblegum flavors, scooped sky high and loaded with every topping under the sun, the result is guaranteed to be the same: sheer, unadulterated joy.
Hear all about it in today’s podcast in a story by staff writer Emily Toy.
Amy Zavatto is the Editor-in-Chief for southforker, northforker and Long Island Wine Press. She's a wine, spirits, and food journalist whose work appears in Wine Enthusiast, InsideHook.com, MarthaStewart.com, the New York Post, Liquor.com, SevenFifty Daily, Imbibe, Men’s Journal and many others. She's the author of The Big Book of Bourbon Cocktails, Prosecco Made Me Do It: 60 Seriously Sparkling Cocktails, Forager’s Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh, Natural Ingredients, and The Architecture of the Cocktail. She is a respected judge for the American Craft Spirits Association’s annual small-production spirits competition, and has moderated numerous panels on the topics of wine, spirits, cocktails, and regional foodways. She is the former Deputy Editor for the regional celebratory publications, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, as well as the former Executive Director of the Long Island Merlot Alliance. She is a member of the New York chapter of the international organization of women leaders in food, wine, and spirits, Les Dames d’Escoffier. The proud daughter of a butcher, Amy is originally from Shelter Island, N.Y., where she developed a deep respect for the East End’s natural beauty and the importance of preserving and celebrating it and its people.
