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If your tummy won’t tolerate cow’s milk, but does fine with goat’s, you’re in for a sweet treat this summer. But you don’t need dairy issues to savor a super-rich pint of Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream, in seven exotic flavors plus vanilla. Who dreamt up goat’s milk ice cream, and why?

Laloo’s founder, Laura Howard, a certified Hatha yoga instructor and slow foodie, was following a strict one-year diet without cow’s milk under the guidance of her yoga teacher, who recommended goat instead. Basically, her frozen dessert hankerings soon got the best of her, as did the horrors of industrial dairy farming, and the rest is history. She founded Laloo’s Goat’s Milk Ice Cream Company in the vineyard-covered hills of California’s Sonoma County less than two years ago, and her edible creations have drawn obsessed ice cream extremists ever since.