Rating Bellingham’s homegrown ice cream

Typically, when Cascadia Daily News reporters and editors gather around the gargantuan conference table adjacent to our office, it’s to discuss heady topics such as water adjudication, election coverage and pending story ideas.  But on a recent afternoon, we were there to eat ice cream. Lots of it. In advance of National Ice Cream Day — which this year takes place Sunday, July 16 — we decided to taste-test handmade fare from area ice cream shops, pick the winners and share our resu