granizados, raspados, frio frios, piraguas

andrew Carmellini of The Dutch in the W Hotel shares his memories of shaved ice, "an old school New York thing" and dubs Hawaii the mecca of shaved ice, but we think he's forgetting a few varieties that you can get, with certain national twists, by everyone from Cubans to Dominicans and Panamanians.

Nonetheless, we think his recipe for pineapple-ginger ice sounds really nice on a hot winter day or a hotter summer day: 

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