Every once in a while, I still get the urge to buy a pint of ice cream when I go grocery shopping.  This doesn't happen often because I rarely venture past the ice cream knowing that I have a freezer full at home.  But for the benefit of my readers, and because it looked very good, I picked up a pint of Talenti Gelato White Chocolate Raspberry during my last trip to Whole Foods. 

The bright magenta swirls of raspberry intrigued me as well as the fact that the pint contained gelato...usually pint choices are limited to either ice cream or sorbet.  This gelato, named after Bernardo "Talenti" Buontalenti, a well known Florentine architect, artist, and chef in the mid 1500s, is made from milk that is free of growth hormones as well as extra fine cane sugar, fresh fruit, and other ingredients from as far as Belgium to Tahiti.

The gelato was easy to scoop and possessed a dense, creamy texture.  The taste was hard to pin point...small hints of white chocolate and cinnamon...the gelato base tasted more like cookies than chocolate (guess that is not a bad thing).  The raspberry swirl was a bit disappointing - tasted more of "fake" fruit rather than fresh fruit.  Overall, I was quite impressed with this gelato given that it came in a pint.  Bonus points for the cute, see-through container. I would be willing to try a few other flavors, and I will be sure to provide an update if I do.