Schorr: Penn State's ice cream course sells out globally every January
Dan Schorr · Dan Schorr – Death, Ice Cream, and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.19) · Jul 31, 2017 · at 24:57
Dan Schorr, founder of Vice Cream, describes attending Penn State University's Ice Cream Short Course to learn commercial dairy production.
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“Penn State University has been running an ice cream course that God, it probably goes more than 50 years, but Dr. Robert Roberts was there, and I believe his dad was there as a professor, and there's about, people come from 30 different countries in January or more, a 130 people, and it's sold out every year”
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