Overview
Why is ice cream so beloved, and how did it charm the world? Intrepid historian Sarah Lohman finds out in this continent-spanning history. Her research takes her from ice cream’s origins in second-century Iran to the dessert’s refinement in seventeenth-century Italy to today’s small scoop shops serving up flavors like ube-honeycomb and toasted rice. Lohman introduces pioneers like America’s “Ice King,” Frederick Tudor, who shipped ice to India in the nineteenth century, and Britain’s “Ice Queen,” Agnes Marshall, who first proposed the use of liquid nitrogen to freeze ice cream in 1901. Lohman also reveals never-before-sleuthed truths about (Peter) Augustus Jackson, a Black Philadelphian credited as the father of American ice cream. She even taste-tests forgotten flavors like candied squash, rye bread, and ambergris—a pungent secretion of sperm whales. Lohman unites history lovers, foodies, and ice cream fanatics with her lively, humorous narrative in Ice Cream Land.
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