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Ale's Ice Cream

A woman smiling behind an ice cream counter
Tyler Lake
Alejandrina Marquez, or Ale, has a wild variety of unique ice creams on offer

Bloomington has its fair share of ice cream shops, butAle’s Ice Cream shop is one that stands out from the pack. Modeled after a traditional Mexican ice cream shop or paleteria, Ale’s offers ice cream flavors that venture well outside the norm for the area. Flavors like corn, queso fresco, horchata, ganzo, soursop and more to boot. And since it’s a paleteria it also offers popsicles and snacks including street corn (elote prepardo), chicharron, equites and nachos.

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Kayte Young discovered her passion for growing, cooking, foraging and preserving fresh food when she moved to Bloomington in 2007. With a background in construction, architecture, nutrition education and writing, she brings curiosity and a love of storytelling to a show about all things edible. Kayte raises bees, a small family and a yard full of food in Bloomington’s McDoel Gardens neighborhood.
Alex Chambers runs WFIU’s arts desk, and produces and hosts WFIU’s Inner States, a weekly podcast and radio show about arts, culture, and ideas from southern Indiana and beyond. He’s the co-creator of How to Survive the Future, a podcast about the present, produced in partnership with Indiana Humanities. He has a PhD in American Studies, with a dissertation called Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, and a book of poems called Bindings: A Preparation, about domestic life and empire. In his spare time, he teaches audio storytelling at the IU Media School. When he’s not in the woods gathering sound, you might see him out for a run on the streets of Bloomington.