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Ice Cream: What You Don't Know Will Surprise You!
From presidential obsessions to dog treats, how ide cream has made the dog days cool.
What do Thomas Jefferson's 18-step ice cream recipe, Fidel Castro's 18-scoop binges, and a failed assassination attempt have in common? They're all part of ice cream's surprisingly scandalous past that Nancy May and Sylvia Lovely share in this week’s episode of Family Tree Food & Stories.
This week, we share how ice cream has evolved from when the Egyptian pharaohs made it, to what snow cream is, to how it became so much fun that it was banned on Sundays (yes,
really!).
Did George Washington really blow a…
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