<p>Harriet, it’s a tropical fruit: [url=<a href=“http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/soursop.htm]Soursop[/url”>Soursop - Annona muricata - Seeds]Soursop[/url</a>]</p>
<p>If you ever get the opportunity to have soursop ice cream (or soursop anything), do. </p>
<p>The tropical ice cream store near us is always, always out of soursop ice cream, darn it!</p>
<p>Soursop? That’s new to me, too.</p>
<p>Sounds delicious! I’m incapable of learning how to set up new audio/tv/tivo-type equipment, but I bet I’ll remember soursop. </p>
<p>Thanks, owlice!</p>
<p>Ya learn something every day!</p>
<p>OK, please hand me a bowl ice cream, one scoop of chocolate brownie and one of that soursop. Now I’m curious.</p>
<p>If you like the fresh fruit, atemoya and sugar apple are sweeter cousins of soursop. Soursop pulp is better for ice cream and sherbets and you can find it frozen in the Spanish markets (where it’s usually labeled guanabana).</p>
<p>I’m not sure how I missed this thread until now! Great food and great conversation! I’ve never heard of soursop, atemoya, sugar apple or guanabana - so thank you owlice, and thank you j’adoube for enlightening me.</p>
<p>I like the idea of a mommy school (and/or daddy school) as well. I have a feeling I’m going to need to exercise that option for D when the time comes.</p>
<p>More food threads. Yummmm…</p>
<p>However, need to loose a few pounds. Anyone have any good diet suggestions/pointers? I will get to the exercise stuff later. Right now I’d love to hear people’s diet success stories.</p>
<p>(PS-- doesnt this thread likely belong in the Parents cafe???)</p>
<p>Maybe it will get moved, but it is here to catch the parents that are new to
the board.</p>
<p>:: dishes out ice cream ::</p>
<p>:: hands it around ::</p>
<p>:: charges for spoons ::</p>
<p>Kidding about that last one. :D</p>
<p>I want this post to stay here, so will sprinkle in a college-related issue: Which college has the best food? I like the idea of snack time at Pomona.</p>
<p><em>settling down with ice cream and brownie</em></p>
<p>unalove, thanks for your post. I agree with you that she need to look at other schools. She has the Bard college book on her dresser and has been looking through it, but no excitement so far. She flat out rejected even considering Simmons-it’s too far.</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom: Tell us what appealed to her about the schools she likes so far, and we’ll try to throw you ideas to tempt her?</p>
<p>We were surprised at how good the food at Bates was.</p>
<p>I agree - I’d like this thread to stay here.</p>
<p>Barnard: It’s in NYC (she would have a built in support network of relatives) and it seemed very “intellectual” to her. She is in a very competitive public high school where she feels a lot of kids are “grade grubbers” who do well academically but are not particularly interested or engaged in learning so much as getting “all As.”</p>
<p>She is not particularly interested in Women’s colleges as a whole, but Barnard is academically rigorous without having the whole “prestige” thing attached to it like, let’s say Columbia does.</p>
<p>Chicago: Also very intellectual-the whole “life of the mind” thing appeals to her. She can see herself up at midnight discussing Kierkegaard. Again, it is academically rigorous, but quirky, not your typical grade grubber school.</p>
<p>Urban is a plus for her. She rejected even looking at Oberlin because it’s out in the middle of a corn field.</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom, would she consider perhaps a “great books” school, such as St. Johns in Annapolis?</p>
<p>I hear you on fit, QM.</p>
<p>I can think of a range of fantastic, highly selective schools for somebody like your D that sound like they might be in your geographic range: Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, NYU, Skidmore, Goucher. Maybe it makes sense to visit those schools and see if they also click.</p>
<p>Are you an NYS resident? If so, I think that the in-state options for safeties are pretty brainy. I’m a big fan of Binghamton and Geneseo-- I don’t know if those would qualify as safeties for your D.</p>
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<p>St. John’s is also an idea… it’s a school I think I’d really like, but unfortunately the curriculum is limited and inflexible.</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay: Cornell, Bowdoin and Wash U all have very good food.</p>
<p>We are not in NYS. We are in the (northern) DC suburbs, 200 miles puts us just about at NYC. I know nothing about St. John’s. I’ll have to take a look.</p>
<p>Rats…we’ve been demoted to the cafe. :hangs head: We should have behaved.</p>
<p>Are there any cheesecake brownies left?</p>
<p>:: rummages around looking for cheesecake brownies ::</p>
<p>timely, I don’t see any; I’m sorry. We need to ask Blondie for the recipe!</p>
<p>I have espresso chocolate chunk brownies, various ice creams, and oatmeal raisin cookies to offer. Will any of those suffice?</p>