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August 22, 2025 Continuing our effort to visit daytime-only locations before the start of the school year, we drove to Homewood South to check out Sandy Boo’s Delights at Dana’s Bakery. Outside the bakery, established in 1979 and full of delicious-looking baked goods, is Sandy Boo’s, an Italian ice stand. After a nice conversation with…
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August 18, 2025 As the start of the school year threatened, we rushed to visit neighborhood locations that are only open during the day. Our top priority: historic Gus and YiaYia’s, a shaved-ice cart founded in 1934. It’s the only independent frozen dessert vendor in Pittsburgh to be depicted in the Carnegie Science Center’s Miniature…
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August 9-16, 2025 You’d think that people doing a project about eating a lot of ice cream would avoid frozen desserts when outside the city. But you’d be wrong. We took a super fun trip to Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina with Greg’s parents, sisters and brothers-in-law, and all of the cousins, and many…
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August 5, 2025 Liddy’s colleague Will Fuller (PA state lead for Common Ground USA, an awesome peacemaking organization that’s preventing political violence and rebuilding social cohesion) has been to lots of baseball stadiums, but never to Pittsburgh’s PNC Park — until tonight! This was our family’s first game since spring training, and we were excited…
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July 31, 2025 After picking Pippa’s godmothers Sandy and Angela up from the airport, we drove to Westwood, a neighborhood in the West End that we had never visited before. Antney’s Ice Cream, located just within the borders of Westwood, serves a delicious set of homemade flavors. Liddy had strawberry pretzel cheesecake, Pippa had angel…
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August 1, 2025 During our weekend with Pippa’s godmothers, Sandy and Angela, we found ourselves in Point Breeze. After a super fun trip to The Frick, where we enjoyed the grounds and gardens, the Car and Carriage Museum, and historic Clayton, we walked over to Frick Park Market. As promised by Mac Miller’s 2011 single…
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August 2, 2025 A full 30-minute drive (without traffic) from our home, at the extreme southeastern-most point of the city, surrounded on most sides by the suburbs of West Mifflin and Munhall, we discovered the neighborhood of Lincoln Place, which none of us had ever visited before. With Pippa’s godmothers in town visiting for the…
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July 27, 2025 We headed out for a walk into the nearby neighborhood of Friendship, notable for its large Victorian homes. We had planned to go to Le’s Grocery, aka “Grocery Kart,” a convenience store on Penn Avenue, but they were closed. So, we walked over to Aldi on Baum Boulevard. We picked up a…
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July 24, 2025 Liddy and Greg are transplants to Pittsburgh, but they’ve heard the myth of Isaly’s: a legacy ice cream shop, inventor of the Klondike bar, with a deli famed for chip-chopped ham. So, when we saw an Isaly’s location on East Ohio Street in East Allegheny, we knew it would be our destination.…
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July 23, 2025 One of four neighborhood divisions of the Hill District, Terrace Village is home to 3,000 residents and also includes part of the Pitt campus. We headed to Thomas & Sons Snow Cones, a pop-up stand on Centre Ave, for a midday snack. Liddy and Pippa both selected red syrup and Edmund had…