One very memorable scene in the show “She’s Gotta Have It” is set to “Raspberry Beret” by Prince, so I knew I wanted to make raspberry sorbet for my pairing.

This vegan, gluten-free and soy-free recipe makes about 1 pint or 2-3 “servings.”

Ingredients
2 pints fresh raspberries
1 teaspoon raspberry emulsion or extract (optional)

Instructions
Drop the raspberries and raspberry emulsion into a blander. The emulsion or extract is completely optional but does add a robust raspberry flavor to the sorbet. Sometimes the natural flavor can die out in the freezing process.

Pulse until all the chunks of raspberry are gone.

What happens next depends on your ice cream maker. If you have a more standard one, you’ll pull your chilled (for 24 hours) bowl out and make the sorbet.

If you have one like mine, you pour the raspberry mixture into a pint then freeze it for 24 hours. After that time, you put the pint into your ice cream maker and let it do its magic.

Scoop and serve with a season or two of “She’s Gotta Have It!”

I topped mine with chocolate sauce because raspberry and chocolate is one of my favorite food combinations in the world.

The Easy Route
Raspberry seems to be one of the easiest flavors of sorbet to find at a grocery store or ice cream parlor.

The Pairing
Remakes don’t always rise to the level of the original, and when I first heard Spike Lee was reimagining his 1986 debut feature “She’s Gotta Have It” as a Netflix show, I was skeptical.

The thing is, though, I also heard they were re-envisioning it for modern times and making the lead character, Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise), bisexual. I knew I had to give it a shot.

Wise is absolutely perfect as Nola, and I’m sad she has not been given any leading romcom roles since her phenomenal breakthrough performance in the two seasons of this show.

Speaking of phenomenal breakthroughs, Anthony Ramos is equally impressive as one of Nola’s love interests, Mars Blackmon (a role originated by Lee in the film).

I binged each season of “She’s Gotta Have It” during the weekend it debuted, and I’m super bummed that it didn’t get another season or two (or 10).

I found this experiment of a filmmaker taking their own successful film project and going deeper into the characters’ worlds through a TV series utterly fascinating.

I do have appreciation for the original film, but the show is a big favorite for me, both in Lee’s oeuvre and in shows in general.

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