It (know) that sweet dishes (cool) with snow and ice in ancient times. These (enjoy) by the rich and powerful such as Alexander the great, the Egyptian Pharaohs, and the Emperor Nero. Sorbets, or water ices, (know) since the 16th century, when they (introduce) in Florence. However, real ice-cream, made with fresh cream or milk, (produce) for the first time in the 1630s by Gerald Tissain, the French chef of the British king, Charles I.
During the 18th century, ice-cream (eat) regularly at fashionable ice-cream cafés in London, Paris and other great cities. It was still a great luxury, though. It (know), for example, that George Washington spent $200 on ice-cream in just two months in 1790.
The cost (reduce) when the first ice-cream factory (open) in 1851 by another American, George Fussel. Since the 19th century, though, it has been the Italians who (see) as the great ice-cream makers. In the mid-19th century, for example, ice-cream (sell) in the streets of London by as many as 30,000 Italians. The Italian methods (learn) by many others since those days, and so today excellent ice-cream (make) and (enjoy) all over the world