Thursday, October 17, 2013

Facts About The History Of Ice Cream

By Marquerite Velasquez


If you love ice cream, you are not alone. Billions of people around the world love this sweet treat, which has been around since ancient times. The early version of ice cream is quite different from what we eat today, but we do known that Chinese cooks created desserts sweetened with fruits and consisting of rice and frozen milk as far back as perhaps 200 BC. In Ancient Rome, fruit was used to sweeten frozen milk, and early Arabs combined frozen milk and sugar for a dessert, the known instance of using sugar to sweeten instead of fruit.

Ice cream, as we know it today, appeared in English and American cookbooks in the early 18th century, and the first ice cream shops in America existed during the Colonial Era. Our earliest presidents, including Washington, Jefferson and Madison all enjoyed ice cream, and Madison's wife Dolley even served it at his second inaugural ball. Despite the popularity, it was still a special and rare treat, simply because access to ice was limited for most people.

Once insulated ice houses were invented in the early 19th century, it became much easier to produce ice cream and a new industry was born. The first soda fountains began to pop up in the United States after the Civil War, serving up ice cream sodas and eventually ice cream sundaes, which were invented as a Sunday treat because some religious groups felt that it was too decadent to enjoy a rich ice cream soda on the Sabbath. In fact, a few cities actually prohibited ice cream sodas being sold on Sunday, so enterprising ice cream vendors came up with a way around these laws.

The popular cone was around during the 19th century, but its popularity really boomed after the 1904 Worlds' Fair, which occurred in St. Louis, Missouri. It was a hot day and the waffle vendor was having no luck selling his treat. An adjacent ice cream vendor, on the other hand, sold so much that he ran out of containers. The quick-thinking waffle chef rolled up a waffle and suggested a partnership. The crowd loved the result and the handy and tasty cone just became more and more popular over time. The ice cream soda, the sundae and the cone are just some of the earliest ice cream treats, and today there are hundreds of interesting confections to consider. Americans consume more than a billion gallons of ice cream every single year, no matter what type of form the treat takes.

Finding ice cream shops in Los Angeles isn't difficult, but if you truly want the best ice cream treats in the area, YoKuMon, an ice cream shop in Culver City, is the place to go. They have a huge menu, but the biggest draw is their unique ice cream sandwiches. These ice cream sandwiches are built using the highest quality ice creams smashed between two fresh, delectable cookies.

The staff bakes the cookies throughout the day right on the premises so when you enter YoKuMon, you will first notice the pleasing aroma of freshly baked cookies. There are a dozen different types of ice cream and eight different cookie types, and you can mix and match to create any type of sandwich you like. The cookie ice cream sandwiches are just $2 each, and for an extra dollar you can add a special topping. They also sell waffle ice cream sandwiches, milkshakes, sundaes, smoothies and more. You also can just enjoy a simple scoop of ice cream or just a freshly baked cookie.




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