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Ice cream : the delicious history / Marilyn Powell.

Title
Ice cream : the delicious history / Marilyn Powell.
Author
Powell, Marilyn.
Publication
Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2006, c2005.

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Description
xxii, 250 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
Summary
Traces the history of ice cream from ancient times to the present, exploring how ice cream was created in the days before electricity, how it was received by various cultures, how it became such a popular pleasure, and other related topics.
Subject
Ice cream, ices, etc. > History
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A taste for cold -- Milk from which all blessings flow -- An inquiry into the nature of ice cream -- Kings, commoners, and cones -- Show business.
ISBN
  • 1585677973
  • 9781585677979
LCCN
^^2006046430
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library