Ice Cream's Origins

Many of us don't know the origin of Ice Cream. According to a post in Paleontology News, Ice Cream orginiated approximately in the 3rd Millenium BC when the Chinese emperor would eat concoctions of fruit juices mixed with ice.

The recipe lasted unknown to most of the world, untill Marco Polo came to the Court of Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor of the Yuan dynasty, and brought the famous dessert to Italy. From their, the Italians modified the Ice Cream, to make the famous Gellato. Probably the Italians were the ones to add milk as a primarial ingredient to the dessert. The dessert became famous throughout Europe, and the French made eventually the ice cream cups in the 19th century.

Today, Ice Cream is a famous dessert, probably one of the most well known throughout the world. In almost every country their is a different style of Ice Cream such as Gelato for Italy and Philadelphia style in the States. So, the next time you eat Ice Cream you can know where it comes from, or at least know what kind of ice cream you are eating.



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