ice cream, a sweet for the lazy peru almandoz
I yudania Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) used the words of the title to describe ice-cream in his indispensable book Physiologie Du Gout.
(thanks to txuri urdin ice-hockey team) Even though it is impossible to know with certainty when ice-cream was invented, we know that 3000 years ago Chinese people used ice to preserve food. Thus, we vay say that any kind of fruit that was frozen became ice-cream. Not happy with frozen fruit and they put in a pot sugar melted in water and made fluid snow and salt. We might say the first modern “ice-cream” was created this simple way. Salt increases the point of evaporation of ice and the increase of temperature, thus melting the ice faster. Yeah, you guessed right, that is why they throw salt on frozen roads.
Throughout history ice-cream has been a luxury for kings and aristrocacy. Emperor Nero, who the movies made the official bad guy, was educated and sensitive apart of being very fond of gastronomy. His guests were offered a mixture of snow and jam. It is not difficult to imagine the wrought and sweat of men who were sent to either the Roman Apenines or the Alps in search of snow.
French Francois I, Charles V, Paulo III or Farnesio (a married pope) were used to drinking half-frozen wine. From the Middle Ages to the disappearance of the totalitarian monarchies, aristocrats hired cooks who could make ice-cream at prices compared to today’s top soccer players. Some reports dating back to 1549 mention a ¨Don Luis de la Nieve¨ from Valencia. The aforementioned Luis de Costellvi made deep holes in the mountains to keep snow to later make ice-cream. A century later, in 1686.a Sicilian opened the first ice-cream shop in a corner in the family cafe. ¨Francesco Procopio¨ was the name of the business. All this happened in Paris and when the fashion of ice-cream spread in Europe, it was thanks to Mr. Procopio that the most famous ice-creams were Italian.
In the last years the topic of ice-cream has achieved a position in gastronomy. From the frozen sweets, frozen fruit in drinks, milk shakes, frozen food and frozen dice for soup among others...
(thanks to txuri urdin ice-hockey team) Even though it is impossible to know with certainty when ice-cream was invented, we know that 3000 years ago Chinese people used ice to preserve food. Thus, we vay say that any kind of fruit that was frozen became ice-cream. Not happy with frozen fruit and they put in a pot sugar melted in water and made fluid snow and salt. We might say the first modern “ice-cream” was created this simple way. Salt increases the point of evaporation of ice and the increase of temperature, thus melting the ice faster. Yeah, you guessed right, that is why they throw salt on frozen roads.
Throughout history ice-cream has been a luxury for kings and aristrocacy. Emperor Nero, who the movies made the official bad guy, was educated and sensitive apart of being very fond of gastronomy. His guests were offered a mixture of snow and jam. It is not difficult to imagine the wrought and sweat of men who were sent to either the Roman Apenines or the Alps in search of snow.
French Francois I, Charles V, Paulo III or Farnesio (a married pope) were used to drinking half-frozen wine. From the Middle Ages to the disappearance of the totalitarian monarchies, aristocrats hired cooks who could make ice-cream at prices compared to today’s top soccer players. Some reports dating back to 1549 mention a ¨Don Luis de la Nieve¨ from Valencia. The aforementioned Luis de Costellvi made deep holes in the mountains to keep snow to later make ice-cream. A century later, in 1686.a Sicilian opened the first ice-cream shop in a corner in the family cafe. ¨Francesco Procopio¨ was the name of the business. All this happened in Paris and when the fashion of ice-cream spread in Europe, it was thanks to Mr. Procopio that the most famous ice-creams were Italian.
In the last years the topic of ice-cream has achieved a position in gastronomy. From the frozen sweets, frozen fruit in drinks, milk shakes, frozen food and frozen dice for soup among others...
