Meet the Team: Chantelle Whyte
Chantelle Whyte is Human Resources Manager here at The Creamery. She is also constantly smiling, energetic and the perfect balance between maternal and sassy. We sat down to chat (and…
Summer, Reviewed
Soooo.... summerrrrr. I feel like we can talk about summer in the past tense now, since a) all our weddings/festivals ended last week, and b) even as a winter-denialist,…
Inked
Some people assume kids are our biggest, and most enthusiastic, customers. We think they'd be surprised at how often adults lose their control at the sight of ice cream. Even…
Six Weeks in Photos
Here are some of my favourite snaps of the action, taken in the past six weeks. FRUIT: this is such a fabulous time of year, fruit-wise. We're getting in 40-odd…
A Real Job
Last week at our stall at Earthfair St George's Market, a customer told one of our scoopers, "You should get a real job". He was busy tasting a bunch of…
V&A Food Market: First Days
This was supposed to be a blog posted entitled "Final Touches", but to be honest, we're still working on those (signboard or visible logo, anybody??). The first five days ended…
The Tardy List
So. Despite longing for warm weather for most of winter, now that it's almost here, we still haven't managed to do half the things we said we would, and we…
The fortnight in Photos
The best laid plans of bloggers... today we've got a fortnight in photos, not a week in photos, but all the more behind the scenes shenanigans to share with you.…
The Week in Photos
OK, we're trying something new; an informal, behind-the-scenes glance at life at Creamery HQ, as frequently as we can manage it. Some of it has to do with ice cream,…
Sundae Any Day
I've never really liked ice cream sundaes. Aside from the sheer size of the monsters, too often the ice cream is smothered in one overly sweet sauce after another, lots…
New at Starlings Market
I know we're not supposed to have favourites, but one of the loveliest markets we sell at each week is the Urban Farmers Market at Starlings Cafe in Claremont. It's…
Winter is Coming
I've been threatening for a while to get a poster like this and put it in the kitchen, but Marianne, our manager, said it felt too threatening. Well, it doesn't…
Four Weeks at Maynardville
Four weeks down, and one to go. We've been scooping at The Comedy of Errors, before the show and during interval, at the beautiful Maynardville Open Air Theatre in Wynberg…