| Show Snow Drinks Forerunner of Ice Cream Industry Who first invented ice cream No Noone Noone Noone one really knows Alexander the Great is recorded as having a great weakness for snow-cooled snow fruit drinks The Roman patricians also drank vast quantities es of fruit drinks mixed with exorbitantly priced snow v. And an old Roman cook Quintus Maximus Gurges is said to have been the first to serve ice cream soda says a writer in London Answers Magazine All that historians are really certain certain certain tain about is that by the Middle ages ice cream had definitely ar arrived arrived arrived rived in court circles Four centuries cen cen- centuries ago Catherine de Medici was being served with ice cream of a different flavor every day As usual the English were all behind in this branch of civilization Charles I remedied matters a lit lit- little little tle tie by bringing over a French chef who wIO w o surprised the king with the delicacy With the coming of the Civil war the Frenchman fled back to his na na- native tive land taking the secret with him From that time until the seventies sev sev- seventies seventies enties of last century ice-cream ice was practically unknown here The history of the ice cream in in in- industry in the United States is quite different The real pioneer of American Amer Amer- American American ican ican ice cream was a Jacob Fussell who kept a dairy farm Carm just outside Washington D. D C C. |
