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The History of Ice Cream How the ice cream industry started The history of Ice Cream goes back to ca. 200BC. Unlike the television or vacuum cleaner, ice cream has no specific history with one particular inventor or founding date. It started as a luxury item for those that could afford it. As more people demanded a refreshing, cool and sweet dessert ice cream soon became a treat for everyone. In the seventeenth century, most of Europe was still adjusting to ice cream, as it was with many other types of foods. Ices were unknown in all other continents - except Mexico. Ices were mainly water-ices during this period and recipes were published in France and Great Britain, which helped popularise the consumption. During the nineteenth century, cities such as London, Paris and New York had an abundance of ice cream manufacturers starting up and ice cream during these times in these areas was beginning to be more common. There were increasing numbers of Italian immigrants and censuses show that the number of street sales of ice creams grew dramatically during the last half of the century, contributed largely to the use of ice cream carts or vans. New advances in technology allowed the ice cream industry to expand and the introduction of the homogeniser meant that cream could be substituted with longer life products and the quality of ice creams could be improved. The American way The very first ice cream factories were set up in America during the second half of the nineteenth century, which started the rapid growth of the industry.
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