The histroy of Icecream

 It was named "Cream Ice" in the 17th century and commonly appeared at the table of Charles I.

France was introduced to a frozen desert somewhat like "Cream ice" by the Italian Catherine de Medici who 1553 that she became Charles I's wife. It was not until 1660 that ice cream was made for the general public.

Over aaa thousand years later the famous adventurer named Marco Polo returned to Italy from the Far East with a recipe closely resembling the likes of what we call not Sherbet

The first official announcement for ice cream in the US is from a letter written in 1744 by the guest of Maryland governor Wiliam Bladen. It first appeared in the "New York Gazette", on May 12 of 1777, then Phillip Lenzi announced that it would be available "almost every day". 

President George Washington spent almost $200 USD on ice cream alone, during the summer of 1790. 

Until 1800, ice cream remained a rare dessert eaten by mostly the elite and wealthy. After 1800 insulated ice houses were invented and ice cream became an industry in America, made by the Baltimore milk dealer in 1851 named Jacob Fussel. 

Ice cream production skyrocketed after technological advances, including steam power, mechanical refrigeration, the homogenizer, and electric power and motors.
And today's total frozen daily production in the US is more than 6.4 billion pounds annually.

During WW2, the military tried to outdo the others by serving Icecream to their troops. And in 1945 the first "floating ice cream parlor" was built for the sailors in the western Pacific ocean. When WW2 ended the dairy rationing law was lifted and the Americans ate 20 quarts of ice cream per person when they celebrated the end of the war in 1946.

Sadly Ice cream parlors and traditionally made ice cream is starting to disappear, as more supermarket ice cream and store-bought ice cream are more accessible and most of the time cheaper.