Episode 46: Ice Cream and The Woman Who Churned Her Way Into History
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How did humans make ice cream before freezers existed?
This week on True Crime Culinary, we're following ice cream from ancient ice houses and massive blocks hauled down mountains to the invention that changed homemade ice cream forever. We explore Persian yakhchals, the international ice trade, why bigger blocks of ice melt more slowly, and how adding salt somehow makes ice colder.
Then we meet Nancy Johnson, the…
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