05-07-2025
Are You Ready for Slushy Summer?
Cheers, everyone! It's Matthew Kronsberg here for Pursuits, and this summer I've decided that, rather than complain about the heat, I'd do something about it. No, I'm not going to migrate northward for a ' coolcation ' or hang ten in a massive wave pool. Instead this is going to be my summer of slush—it should be yours too.
For the past few weeks, as New York turned into an open-air pizza oven, I've kept cool with a refreshing round robin of homemade frosé, soft serve and frosty margaritas. I've been testing a pair of countertop contraptions: the new $575 GreenPan Frost, a soft serve ice cream and frozen drink maker, and the $350 Ninja Slushi, which makes only frozen drinks. But it wasn't all colorful beverages and paper umbrellas—I've also faced a daily duel with sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, better known as brain freeze. I tell you this not as a bid for your pity, but only to note that even the cushiest assignments have their hazards.
