Tasty Freeze: Ray Karam

A A A Comments (0) By Amy Silverman Thursday, Sep 27 2007

Ray Karam is trademarked. At least, his title is. As tastemaster for Cold Stone Creamery, this guy takes his frozen treats seriously. Cold Stone is headquartered in Scottsdale, with more than 1,400 stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam, Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan. That's a lot of ice cream. Karam helped put the cake batter flavor on Cold Stone's menu, and, earlier this year (and a more dubious honor, we feel), French toast. Karam is no licker-come-lately. He's worked decades in this chilly business, for Carnation and Nestlé before Cold Stone. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Giulio Sciorio

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