The association between Italians and ice-cream is the stuff of legend. Marco Polo is supposed to have brought the technique for freezing milk from China. (Nonsense! As is the claim that he took noodles to Italy where they became pasta). The Roman Emperor Nero is supposed to have invented ice-cream. (Not true though some accounts say that he liked pouring honey over snow). Even the French, who claim to have invented most things, defer to their neighbours when it comes to ice-cream. One story has it that Catherine de Medici brought ice-cream from Italy when she married the future French King Henri, in 1533. |
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