ICE CREAM

            Ice cream is not a new treat. In ancient Rome, the Emperor Nero sent runners into the mountains for snow, which his chefs mixed with honey, fruit and juices for his frozen desserts. When Marco polo returned from his famous journey to the Orient at the end of the 13th century, he brought with him a recipe for a kind of sherbet made from fruit juice and milk. It was said that people there had been eating it for thousands of years. Centuries later, European chefs experimented with ice cream recipes ti invent the dairy ice cream we eat and enjoy today.

             The first commercially made ice cream in the United States was sold by Mr. Hall in New York city in 1786. The first ice cream soda was reputedly concocted by Robert Green of Philadelphia, who in 1874, added ice cream to pain soda water. But credit for the first ice cream cone goes to a young ice cream salesman at the 1904 Lousiana purchase exposition in St. louis - or rather to his date. The salesman, Charies E. Manches, gave an ice cream sandwich and a bouquet of flowers to the layers of the sandwich into a cone to hold her flower, thus founding an American institution.