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Iced

From 16th century aristocrats started treating delicacy
and good food as symbol of noble life, but, unfortunately, there
are very few culinary books left from that time. At that time,
the French queen Catherine De’Medici and the royal alchemist/
astrologer Cosimo Ruggieri brought cryotechnique to Paris,
which later became a huge trend in noble circles, allowing
king’s servants freeze food. In 17th century two poets, Fran-
cesco Redi and Lorenzo Magalotti, wrote a recipe of gelato
made out of eggs and cream, they were extremely proud of it;
at this point, sorbet and other ice drinks still belong only to
the aristocracy, including the Pope.
The turning point was in 1686 when Francesco Procopio
Cutò from Sicily opened his“Le Procope”café in Paris and started
selling noble status sorbet to anyone who wanted it, making it
available for wider audience. Today the café is still opened and
known as probably the earliest place to sell ice cream.
18th century is an important period of time for ice cream
history, written by Diderot and D’alembert Encyclopedia first
time mentioned the word“glace(gelato)”; medical expert Fil-
lippo Baldini wrote On Sorbets article, where he put sorbets
into three categories and described in every detail its favorable
aspects for health.

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Nineteenth century can be called “Golden Age” of ice cream,
as gelato was produced of numerous ingredients such as flowers and
other plants, vegetables and even medical herbs; also many famous
chefs and hotels included gelato into the menu. Early gelato ingre-
dients were still mixed by hand and after birth of artificial ice in
1869, its production costs went significantly lower and easier
manufacturing made ice cream a one more type of street food.
Every spring hawkers would push their ice cream trolleys, ring a
bell and scream“Gelato,gelato!”; so in time this icy delight was all
over Europe and even came to the USA. With growing popularity
of gelato, people started paying more attention on its look and shape,
and with the help of different iron patterns and equipment gelato
became also fashion food.

Different iron IMCA ice cream bar-
patterns rel used in early twen-
tieth Century

Early ice cream
trolley

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