On the Importance of Ice Cream


In Italy [16th Century], as in Spain, however, snow water seems to have been used widely. It explains the early development of the art of ice cream and water-ice in Italy. Its sale was so profitable in Rome that it became the subject of a monopoly

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
Fernand Braudel


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