The ice cream machine sat unused in the cupboard, an artifact of our wedding a few years before.

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And what better time of year to break out the ice cream machine than now, during peak tomato season?

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The ice cream machine made its way to the front of the cupboard.

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Before you know it, you'll find yourself reaching back into the cupboard to pull out the ice cream machine for another batch.

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Nor is it as granulated or icy as granite, the Italian, semi-frozen flavored ice that can be made without an ice cream machine.

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However, they became convinced that their customers would love their hard ice cream much more in its softer, just- made incarnation, freshly decanted from the ice cream machine.

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The ice cream machine was one of our first targets.

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It was there that his son, Bill Fernandez, and his son's friend, Steve Wozniak, built the Cream Soda computer--the machine that might have changed history had it not shorted out during a presentation to a local reporter.

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The games in the arcade are the cream of his 1, 200-machine collection, which Arnold began in 1970 and estimates is the best in the world (he's probably right).

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But once we had the machine, the prenuptial novelty of homemade ice cream quickly wore off.

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