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A Brief History of Ice Cream

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Written by Paul Strauss | July 9, 2024

The refrigeration used to make most ice cream has only been around since the early 20th century. But as TED-Ed points out, societies have been making frozen desserts for centuries. The earliest examples date back to the first century in locations as far and wide as Italy, China, and India, but ice cream as we know it didn’t emerge until the late 1600s.


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