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Ice cream: the best parlors on Long Island

Ah, simple pleasures: Chocolate ice cream, this one

Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | Ah, simple pleasures: Chocolate ice cream, this one made by the new ice cream parlor Joe and Liza's, in Bridgehampton. (June 15, 2012)

I'm a tough customer when it comes to ice-cream parlors, for the simple reason that I am perfectly happy to stay home and consume a pint of chocolate Häagen-Dazs. The "homemade" claim holds little allure for me, since any store with a batch freezer and a carton of ice-cream base can, technically, make it.

What makes ice cream worth going out for is the use of real vanilla, fine cocoa and fresh...

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