🍜 Ice Cream
The world's favorite frozen dessert: cream, sugar and air — ancient in origin, industrialized in America, global today.
| Aliases | The world's dessert |
|---|---|
| Alternate names | Icecream (archaic) |
| Entity type | 🍜 Food |
| Permanent ID | E052 |
| Parent topic | Food & Drink |
| Wikidata | Q13133 |
| Wikipedia | Ice_cream |
About Ice Cream
Ice cream descends from ancient chilled desserts — Persian snow syrups, Chinese frozen milk — made practical by salt-and-ice freezing and perfected in 17th-century Europe.
America industrialized it: Nancy Johnson's hand-crank freezer (1843), Jacob Fussell's first factory (1851), the soda-fountain era, the 1904 cone and the sundae. Vanilla remains the world's best-selling flavor.
Timeline
| ~500 BCE | Persians chill syrups with snow. |
| 1686 | Gelato goes public in Paris. |
| 1843 | Johnson patents the hand-crank freezer. |
| 1851 | First commercial factory, Baltimore. |
| 1904 | Cone popularized at St. Louis World's Fair. |
Famous Examples & Highlights
- Vanilla is #1 globally
- 1843 hand-crank freezer
- 1851 first factory (Baltimore)
- 1904 cone popularized
Relationships
| Country of origin | United States |
|---|---|
| Key ingredients | Cream, Sugar |
| Country of origin | United States |
Parent & Child Topics
Parent: Food & Drink
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