If You Make Nothing Else, Make Homemade Ice Cream

No other dish so successfully combines low cost, high quality, and the possibility for madcap experimentation

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Every cook knows that different foods have different work-to-reward ratios. Some foods are high effort and high payoff — like gnocchi, New York-style cheesecake, or shrimp gumbo. Other foods deliver…