Iʼd like to acknowledge everyone who helped inspire and create these recipes. To Celia, thank you for being my first ice cream maker. To Nancy, thank you for willing our shop to life, with your sheer force and tenacity. To Ike, Allena, Crystal, Duncan, Gunnar, and Beth, thank you for all of your additions to the Coppa ice cream recipe book. To Stephanie, thank you for baking so many inclusions for me and perfecting ice cream sandwich bread. To Leona, thank you for bringing me in and showing me the magic of soapberries. To Tyler, thanks for your camaraderie and for making all that salmon ice cream. To Ferguson and all of the scoopers, thank you for busting your forearms and bringing feedback from our customers. To George and Katie and all my neighbors, thanks for letting me pick your delicious cherries. To Spruce Root, thank you for funding my attendance at Penn State's ice cream school and the Oregon Food Innovation Center. To Sarah, thank you for letting me play in your test kitchen and teaching me how to build flavors. To my ice cream testers, Alexander, Mari, Linda, and Leslie, thank you for helping refine these recipes, and Becca, thank you for making me sound better. To all of our customers, especially those who were brave enough to join our adventuresome flavor of the month club, thank you for eating all of our ice creams, even the duds (who remembers the carmelized onion?). To my mom, thank you for giving me the confidence to chase all my dreams. Finally, to Jessica, thank you for your patience and love and for supporting my crazy ice cream journey for all these years.

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