{"id":79543,"date":"2026-01-06T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:06:10","slug":"former-employee-at-emilys-in-nazareth-is-living-her-ice-cream-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79543\/","title":{"rendered":"Former employee at Emily\u2019s in Nazareth is living her ice cream dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Mylea Biggiani, nothing beats scooping up a double dip of pistachio ice cream to a smiling kid.<\/p>\n

After spending eight years in Atlanta, the Lower Nazareth Township native found her way back to her favorite job, the one she dabbled in as a Nazareth Area High School and college student.<\/p>\n

Now the 37-year-old mother of two is the new owner of Emily\u2019s Ice Cream<\/a> in Nazareth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my dream,\u201d said the 2007 Nazareth Area grad. (Her classmates may remember her by her maiden name: Mylea Bachman.)<\/p>\n

She got her first taste of the ice cream business in her teens, then migrated South and pursued her adult career as a social worker and later worked as a marketing representative for social programs.<\/p>\n

The work was fulfilling but draining. She found herself at a career crossroads when she moved back to the Nazareth area in August to be close to her mother. Then, out of nowhere, her dream job came calling.<\/p>\n

She often mentioned to Emily\u2019s owner Patricia Rice that she would love to carry on Rice\u2019s legacy when it came time for Rice to retire. The timing couldn\u2019t have been better.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just feels like this was meant to happen,\u201d Biggiani said.<\/p>\n

Biggiani doesn\u2019t plan to change Emily\u2019s 24 rotating flavors or the ice cream cakes. And the transition was seamless on Dec. 19. <\/p>\n

Biggiani might close the store at 100 S. Main St. for a few days for interior decorating. She has a sign to hang from the original Emily\u2019s store from 1987, brochures from Nazareth Speedway from the 1970s and promotional materials from Martin Guitar from the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Her customers<\/a> can rest easy knowing the tradition of Emily\u2019s will carry on. Biggiani wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love food. I love creating food. I love decorating the cakes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Emily\u2019s is open this winter from noon to 8 p.m. and in the summer from noon to 9 p.m. Learn more about the business on its website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Emily\u2019sYoung customers love to order Cookie Monster ice cream at Emily\u2019s Ice Cream at 100 S. Main St. in Nazareth.Rudy Miller | For lehighvalleylive.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Mylea Biggiani, nothing beats scooping up a double dip of pistachio ice cream to a smiling kid.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-79543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}