Ice cream, we treat
this food as a snack or desert, which ever you prefer. Ice cream has been part
of our lives and gives it more flavor than we could ever imagine. It has vast
numbers of flavors and different designs to satisfy not only our hunger and cravings,
but also it looks appealing to our eyes, making it more appetizing. A lot of us
have eaten a lot of ice cream in our lives and yet we don’t even know the
desert’s origin.
Not much is known
about the origin of this delectable desert; the only thing known about its
history is that it reaches back as far as second century B.C. With no specific
date or inventor. However, it is known the Alexander the Great enjoyed ice and
snow flavored with nectar and honey. Biblical references also state that King Solomon
was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During
the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners
into the mountains for snow, which was then flavored with fruits and juices.
After
a thousand years later, Marco Polo returned to Italy from the Far East bringing
with him recipes that closely resemble that to a sherbet. Some historians say
that the recipe for our ice cream today originated from this recipe. In the
1800, ice cream was still very much just for the aristocrats and people with
higher rankings until insulated ice houses are invented. In 1851, manufacturing
ice creams was started by a Baltimore milk dealer named Jacob Fussell. With the
help of the advancement of technology, this sweet flavored desert became more
known to us as it reaches stores all around the world with the help of the
advancements of cars and trucks as transportation. Refrigerating systems helps preserve the tasty desert and
making it lasts longer in the stores as a stock or for later consumption for
us.
Ice
creams has gone through a lot of challenges to get where it is now, but it is
no doubt that it is one of the most delicious desert ever known for mankind.
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