Jeff Rogers, The Naughty Vegan, may have saved my sanity back in the day when I had foresworn Ben and Jerries, but couldn’t stomach the taste or texture or nasty ingredients of then-available non-dairy frozen desserts.

His short book, Vice Cream, offered me (and tens of thousands of others) a simple and elegant way to make high-quality frozen desserts at home. Yeah, they were expensive (a key ingredient was raw cashews). And yeah I ended up buying a separate freezer so I could order the ingredients in bulk and save money.

But they were amazing.