HISTORY OF ICE-CREAM

#Nero (37-68 A.D.), The Roman Emperor, is said to have eaten a sort of water-ice.

#The Chinese claim that they have been making and consuming Ice Cream since ages.

#Supposedly, Marco Polo (1254 – 1324) carried the Chinese Ice Cream recipes back with him to Venice.

#These were then introduced to the French by Italian chefs retinue of Catherine de¢ Medici when she married Henri II of France.

#Royal Ice Cellars were built in Mesopotamia in around 2000 B.C.

#These were used to cool wines and foods.

#During the late 1600s, The French King Louis XIV was known to have feasts with colored water-ice and liqueurs.

#Nicholas Lemery’s Recueil de curiositéz rares et nouvelles de plus admirables effets de la nature, published in 1674,contained the first recipe for flavored ices.

#The Quaker colonists who brought their ice cream recipes with them introduced ice cream to the United States.

#It is said that Ice Cream was regularly consumed by Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

#During the eighteenth century, the spread of ice pails and cookery books with ice recipes, almost everywhere around the globe, resulted in the delicacy becoming more common.

#Robert Green, in 1874, is supposed to have invented the Ice Cream Soda, which took ice cream consumption in America and other parts of the world to great heights.

#The twentieth century saw an explosion of sorts in the popularity of ice cream owing to availability of cheap refrigeration.

#Italian confectioners made Gelato, their own form of Ice Cream, which became immensely famous due it’s texture and lightness.

#During the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, cones were used for the first time to serve Ice Cream.

#A chemical research team in Britain came up with the soft ice cream, which had more air in it. It became immensely popular because of its creamy yet light texture.

#Today, it is popularly known as the ‘Softy’ ice cream.

#In the 1980s, the older, thicker ice creams made a comeback and were referred to as ‘Premium’ Ice Creams.