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Ice Cream History
Timeline of Ice Cream - From Ancient to Modern Ice Creams500 BC People of Persian
Empire were the first whostarted making ice cream.They would pour grape juiceconcentrate over snow, andeat it during the hot summers.
400 BC Persians inventedice cream recipe for their royalfamilies. It consisted of icedrose water, vermicelli, saffron,fruits and other sweet flavors.
37-68 BC Historians havefound records that RomanEmperor Nero liked chilleddelicacies. He had a supply ofice from the mountainsconstantly brought to him sothat he may eat it with fruitand honey toppings.
200 AD Ancient Chinese records tell of frozen mixture of milk and rice that wasconsumed as a summer treat.
800- 900 Arabs defined the modern recipe of ice cream by introducing milk andsugar as primary ingredient. By 10th century, ice cream made of milk, cream, flavoredrosewater, dried fruits and nuts was used over entire Arab lands, especially inBaghdad, Damascus, and Cairo.
1100 Chinese royal families and wealthy citizens started regular use of several icebased summer treats.
Late 13th century Marco Polo returns to Italy, carrying with him the tale andrecipe for ice cream. Italy becomes fascinated with findings from Middle East and Asiaand starts the age of Renaissance.
1533 Ice cream remained popular only in Italy, until marriage of Catherinede'Medici and Henry II of France introduced ice cream to continental France, andsoon after that entire Europe.
1649 The most famous ice cream related death. Chef of Charles I of England wasbeheaded shortly after his famous ice cream recipe started circulating in the public.He died because he broke his oath to Charles I of England never to reveal it.
1744 Scottish colonists brought ice cream recipe to North America.1774 American caterer Philip Lenzi returned from London into New York, and
immediately announced beginning of the ice cream sales.1813 Wife of the U.S. President James Madison, Dolly Madison, served ice cream at presidential Inaugural
Ball of 1813.1846 - Nancy Johnson of New Jersey invented first hand cranked and portable freezer.1851 - Beginning of the commercial ice cream production in North America.1904 Tremendous ice cream demand at St. Louis. The World's Fair caused local ice cream sellers to make
the worlds first ice cream cones. This early models were made by employing services of nearby wafflevendor.
1926 First continuous and commercially viable freezer is perfected, marking the beginning of theworldwide ice cream industry.
1934 Eskimo pie was first chocolate covered ice cream.1939 Mass production of American ice cream that was sent to boost morale of the Allied troops in Europe
managed to popularize this dish across entire world. Majority of the world thought of ice cream as Americaninvention.
Second part of 20th century Cheap refrigeration, explosion of mass produces ice cream brands, andintroduction of soft ice cream made ice cream one of the most popular summer treats.
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