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Dairy, Fruit, and Spices; So Nice

Just in time for summer, Bonta Gelato opens a downtown storefront

A year ago, Jeff Labhart dropped by our offices at the Source, and dropped off four pints of gelato. It was a great surprise on an early summer day. Labhart, originally from Oregon’s dairy territory of Tillamook, and his wife Juli, originally from a berry growing community in northwestern Washington, seemed to be an ideal […]

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I scream. You scream.

We all scream for—gelato?

For a year, Jeff and Juli Labhart traveled the world—to the street stalls of Thailand, the beaches of Zanzibar, and the mountains of India —ostensibly looking for spices; like latter-day Marco Polos. Like the moral of a children’s book, though, they returned home to Bend to realize that many of the best ingredients for ice […]

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