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( Thursday, July 10, 2003)

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If you want to taste the best Italian ice-cream, you should go to Tuscany, or rather to the suggestive town of San Gimignano. Located just a few kilometres from Siena, San Gimignano is renowned worldwide as the "Manhattan of Italy" because of its medieval towers. Sergio Dondoli has opened his ice-cream shop in this setting, and more precisely in the town's market square. Newspaper clippings in German, English and Italian, not to mention the letters from all over Europe, testify to his popularity. Once, his chocolate ice-cream even won the title of the world's "best ice-cream of the year". If you want proof, all you need to do is taste it: rich of cocoa and cream, and its softness is always just perfect. To make a long story short, his ice-cream is damn good. So, my dear Italian ice-cream man selling ice-cream just around the corner, I hate to tell you this but you are just not up to his standards.