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HISTORY
ACCORDING TO MUSEUM’S RECORDS,
THERE ARE 5 STAGES OF GELATO HISTORY:
12,000 years B.C. – 13th century: From snow reservoirs to sorbets’ prototype
16th – 18th century: Ice cream available for aristocracy
19th – 29th century: Rapid development and spread of gelato
1900 – 1950: From ice and salt preserving technologies to modern technology development
1950 – 1985: Bringing together ice cream producing and retail spots
HISTORY
HISTORY THE SECRET DRINK OF ARISTOCRACY
Just like coffee, ice cream, or better to say ice drinks, came
to us from ancient times. According to a research made by eth-
nologist Catherine Perlès, humanity discovered and used ice and
snow 14,000 B.C. In records from ancient Mesopotamia we can
find that servants in Royal Palace of Mari had to run around 100
km in search of snow and ice to cool the drinks at royal banquet
or religious ceremony. In Chinese classical “Book of Songs”, there
are also recording about people from Northwest Plateau who dug
snow well to preserve ice and snow. In 4th century C.E. Greek
philosophers, poets and some land conquerors started adding
snow into drinks to make them more refreshing.
But the first real ice drink was invented in 11th century,
shrb (kind of a syrup, considered to be the most primitive ver-
sion of sorbet) was made of water, sugar and spices, one would
boil it all together and then put in a container filled with ice to
cool it down. Since then people started to use ice to create dif-
ferent kinds of drinks and sugar became one of the most impor-
tant ingredients for making sorbets.
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