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Island Pops Captures the Vibe of the Caribbean in a Cone

Ordinarily, being laid off from your high-powered consulting job while five months pregnant is cause for immediate panic.

Ordinarily, being laid off from your high-powered consulting job while five months pregnant is cause for immediate panic.

But for Shelly Marshall, it was just the sort of life-altering push that she needed to finally devote herself full-time to her true passion: ice cream making. "My mother said, 'Are you going to go to one of your competitors and go back into consulting? Or are you going to open up that shop that you've always wanted?'" Marshall recalls.

Up until that point in 2017, Marshall and her husband Khalid Hamid had been running Island Pops as a side project, specializing in Caribbean-inspired ice cream and popsicle flavors.

The Crown Heights ice cream parlor specializes in flavors inspired by ingredients from Trinidad, Grenada, and Jamaica.

Shelly Marshall of Island Pops | Courtesy of Island Pops Ordinarily, being laid off from your high-powered consulting job while five months pregnant is cause for immediate panic. But for Shelly Marshall, [...]




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