Welcome to How to Eat Ice Cream
The Alchemy of Pleasure
A manifesto told in licks—on the body, becoming, and the melt that changes everything
by Jeni Britton
This is not about dessert.
This is about what happens when you stop performing and start feeling.
It’s about pleasure—not as escape, but as intelligence. As instruction.
As the beginning of everything real.
It’s about remembering that your body is not a machine, a brand, or a biohack.
It’s a knowing instrument. A wild oracle. A sensual, sovereign place.
I spent 26 years building an ice cream company, yes.
But what I was really building was a way of living:
Flavor-first. Instinct-led. Body-aware. Soul-deep.
After I stepped away, I returned to the forest. To blueberries. To the racetrack.
To my gut.
And I remembered what had always been true:
The future is not linear.
The soul is not scalable.
Pleasure is not the opposite of productivity—it’s the source of vitality.
Emotion is not inferior to thinking—it’s a well of irreducible knowing.
Flavor is a way of remembering who you are.
This project is a manifesto-in-motion—told in licks: short essays, stories, metaphors, and memory.
It’s also a potential book being written in real time. For now, it unfolds here—through rhythm, risk, and melt.
Each lick is a taste of something real:
Desire. Risk. Failure. Grit. Longing. Instinct. Radiance. Rebellion. Rebirth. Becoming.
We begin with the four sensorial facets of ice cream:
Flavor, Texture, Body, and Finish—as a metaphor for the experience of being sentient and alive.
From there, we melt into personal stories. Sacred pleasures.
Business. Love. Philosophy. Power. Softness. Scent.
You can start anywhere. But if you’re someone who…
Feels more than you can explain
Moves by intuition, even when it doesn’t make sense
Wants to explore the flavor (essence) of being
Is done with perfection, performance, and the binary of pain vs. pleasure—
Then come closer.
With love and lightness,
Jeni
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