From creative cold treats to secret ingredients, here are this week’s most interesting foods reads.

• Inspired and unusual ice cream flavors--such as parsnip, grilled sweet corn, and cigar-smoked caramel--are making deeper inroads.

• Having exhausted nose and tail, chefs are now using pig’s ears as a centerpiece to their dishes.

• The always creative and slightly kooky craft beer brewery Dogfish Head, has just released their newest beer: Welcome Positive Contact, a sweet and sour hybrid brew of beer and cider.

• Just in time for summer, an industrial design student in London has created a nifty at home ice cream maker called Parlor.