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AoIn Italy, ice cream is a habit like pizza,Ao said Dr Monica Tramontan, one of the three partners behind Il Gelato di Bruno, a new ice cream parlour in Oasis By The Sea, opposite Jawaharat AAAE Shatti. AoIt is our tradition.Ao Monica is from Padova, near Venice. As a little girl she would visit the ice-cream trolley outside her school, its chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and pistachio ices drawing the children like bees to a honeypot. AoOnce upon a time, ice cream was fresh almost everywhere in Italy.Ao

It was MonicaAAEs passion for good, fresh ice cream that led her to Il Gelato di Bruno, an Italian franchise that she discovered and immediately liked on account of its modern style concept and innovative, special recipes. AoItAAEs beautiful ice cream Au I can tell you this because IAAEm Italian.Ao Monica found the franchise after two years of Aofattening researchAo into ice-cream suppliers. Now based mainly in Italy, she was living in Japan when the idea of opening an ice-cream parlour in Oman first took root, the concept inspired by her visits to the sultanate during the course of her work in the oil and gas industry. Il Gelato di Bruno is the number one producer of ice-cream products in Italy, Monica said, although she herself liked the brand as much for its smart, modern-look shops as for its exclusive recipes. AoIt has adapted a fine-dining style to a coffee shop. Everything you see at Il Gelato di Bruno, from the cups to the furniture, is from Italy.Ao

All of the ice cream available is homemade daily and contains no artificial colourings or preservatives. AoWhatAAEs left over at the end of each day is pasteurised, not refrozen.Ao In addition to conventional ice creams, the kitchen (described by Monica as a lab on account of its up-to-the-minute equipment) makes ices made

with rice milk, for people unable to digest cowAAEs milk, and AaelighterAAE versions for dieters. The ice cream is not only available in the shop: Il Gelato di Bruno has a few old-style trolleys from which customers can buy ice cream. The trolleys are located at Shatti beach at sunset and in Muscat City Centre, and are also available to hire for events.Monica, who has herself studied to make ice cream, is Ao100

per cent sure that people will like the ice cream.Ao Good ice cream should not leave the mouth full of fat, she explained, nor should it be too sugary Au if it has too much sugar, it will melt too fast. The gelato at Il Gelato di Bruno suffers neither of these flaws Au in fact, Monica and her partners think it is so good that they are planning shops all over the Gulf. For details, call 96618750

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