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The origin of ice cream


Among the most popular desserts from all around the globe, ice cream has been well recognized for being a leading confectionery which is able to alleviate uncomfortable feeling caused by high temperature of the midday sun. Its cold and sweet deliciousness have attracted all types of consumer for hundreds of years. Therefore, this frozen dessert is truly considered as the word’s most popular confection. Today, I'll bring you back through time to see when and how ice cream started its story and set the name among the most successful desserts in food history. But remark! This article was wrote for a website of my former company.

The origin of ice cream remains in obscurity, some historical records claime that the first ice-cream-like dessert was first created in the time of Nero Claudius Caesar, a famous Roman emperor who lived in 618-97 A.D.. It is believed that the young emperor had ordered his subjects to bring some ice from a nearby mountain and combined the collected ice with fruit toppings and ate them like a light meal. However, this theory is not confirmed yet. Other historical evidences indicate that ice cream was actually produced in 618-97 A.D. by King Tang of Shang in China who regularly created some kind of confection by mixing ice with an amount of milk. This theory is supported by another explanation which said that Marco Polo had learned about this cold light meal from the Chinese and brought it back to Europe.

Anyway, the history of ice cream is officially started in the early 16th century when some kind of ice-cream-like dessert was produced and prevailed throughout Italy. Later in the 17th century, this frosty confection had been developed and spread to the nearby countries like France, Spain and England. These countries also crated their individual recipes and introduced it to the wider world in later time. Ice cream had arrived United States in the early 18th century and rapidly became a famous confectionery for most of the American. It is believed that ice cream was regularly served to several famous American leaders such as Gorge Washington and Thomas Jefferson in their house and office. In addition, ice cream is recorded as one of light meals which a famous governor, Bladen of Maryland served to their guests. In 1776, a first American ice cream parlor was set up. In this period, the name “Ice cream” was first called by American colonists who coined the name from the phrase “iced cream” which was similar to “iced tea”.

By the late 19th, Ice cream business rapidly expanded throughout the planet, especially in America and Europe. Ice cream manufacturers and brands were widely established and many ice cream recipes were continuously also made up to fulfill customers’ varied tastes. Until the late 20th century, because of the expansion of modern ice cream producing methods and the introduction of a new innovation called "refrigerator" which is able to keep ice cream stay longer, this frozen confection has finally become one of the most popular light meals in several countries, especially in tropical nations where frozen foods or drinks are extremely needed.

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