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Elizabeth David, celebrated for her mastery of culinary history, examines the role of ice across centuries. She traces the use of ice from 16th‑century Italian banquets and French royal courts to Persian snow pits, Levantine sherbet trade, Boston’s ice trade, and London’s burgeoning ice cream industry, revealing how this once scarce commodity shaped social rituals and industry.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Elizabeth David
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