The Heavenly Food

Ice creams and sorbets are born in the East. Once the preserve of the large tables, sorbets and ice have charmed audiences with street vendors ...

We do not know the exact origin of the ice and sherbet. At the beginning of our era, the Chinese were already producing fruit ices, and the first century the Roman Emperor Nero sent for him in the mountains of snow that was being prepared with honey and fruit for banquets.



There are over 2000 years, the Caliph of Baghdad sipped iced fruit syrups, cooled with snow, to name "sharbet", which will give the term in French sorbet (sherbet "for Americans).

In the thirteenth century, Marco Polo, a great provider of advanced culinary in the West, return trip to the East, described in his stories, making a frozen drink. The "Italian explorer had brought the art of sorbet. On sorbetto, became very popular in Italy, is a hit in France after the marriage of Catherine de Medici of Italy with the French king in the sixteenth century.

In 1661, the Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli opens in Paris, Le Procope. It offers more than four to twenty fragrances to its customers. The ice becomes a pleasure for all and enjoy the fruits out of season is one of the reasons for the popularity of the population for these frozen treats. The famous chef Vatel also created ice cream with vanilla and chocolate.

In 1851 the United States, the first ice cream factory is created by Jacob Fussell, a milk dealer in Baltimore.

In 1892, the great chef Auguste Escoffier invented for austalienne singer, Nellie Melba, Peach Melba (a peach poached in a vanilla ice cream)

In 1905, an Italian peddler in New York invented the ice cream cone, "the cornucopia is a cone-shaped cookie filled with two scoops of ice cream.

In 1922, the Eskimo ice was invented by the American Christian K. Nelson, a native of Onawa, Iowa. The patent states that this is an ice cream or sorbet, covered with a chocolate shell.

With the invention of pasteurization and refrigeration, as well as the option to decline the ice in great numbers and in excellent health conditions, the ice industry was born. Artisans and designers ice decline unrestrained passion and creativity ...!

Today, the French consume 6.8 liters of ice cream, sorbet or ice cream per year per capita.

The European average is 8.7 liters / h / year.

These are the Nordic countries who consume the most frozen desserts: 13.3 liters / h / year in Finland and 12.4 liters / h / year in Sweden.