CHAPTER 1 The Path from Cow to Cone Ice cream shops they’re as unique as the flavors they serve Some like Peddler’s Creamery in Los Angeles California provide unusual experiences Here customers churn their own frozen treats by pedaling a stationary bike Others like the Union Dairy in Freeport Illinois offer wildly delicious delights Their house specialty The Original Holy Cow a 12-scoop sundae with every topping on the menu At Chester Springs Creamery in Pennsylvania you can get really really close to the source of the ice cream you’re eating In fact you can enjoy a cone while visiting the very cows 4 21st century skills library
The Original Holy Cow Sundae at the Union Dairy in Freeport IL features a dozen scoops of ice cream 5 5
Ice cream trucks have long been a welcome sight for children and adults alike whose milk was used to make it That’s because the creamery is located on Milky Way Farm Ice cream has a long and global history It was enjoyed in China as a mix of frozen milk and rice as long ago as 200 bce Ancient Greeks and Romans ate snow mixed with honey and fruit The explorer Marco Polo traveled the Silk Road in the 1300s and brought new ice cream recipes from Asia to Europe 6 21st century skills library
With the invention of refrigeration and home freezers in the 20th century ice cream’s popularity soared Companies manufactured it Customers lined up for it Whether served in cones or cups sodas or shakes at parlors or at home ice cream was a hit Invention of the Cone Have you ever heard the saying Necessity is the mother of invention Nowhere is this phrase better illustrated than in the creation of the pointy-bottomed ice cream cone Two sellers stood side by side at the 1904 World’s Fair in St Louis Missouri One Arnold Fomachou sold ice cream served in paper cups The other Ernest Hamwi sold Syrian zalibia or waffles When Arnold ran out of cups Ernest made an edible one by forming the waffle into a cone The ice cream cone as we know it was born 7 Nature’s Makers
