I basically marked all of them, she says.

Something in my brain just kind of clicked, she remembers.

I like to create, and its easy with ice cream because its such a blank canvas.

Rabia Kamara Ruggiero

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As long as it freezes and scoops, it can be any flavor.

metro area in 2015.

All my neighbors were immigrants or children of immigrants, she says.

Blackberry-Brownie Ice Cream Sundaes

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She recalls going to friends houses for Ethiopian food one night and Vietnamese the next.

Blackberry-Brownie Ice Cream Sundae

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