Ice Cream: The Delicious History by Marilyn Powell pg 1-42

Summary
Marilyn Powell srats off her hisrory if ice cream by strating with only ice. She introduces ice by talking about how different nations and cultures such as Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Sicilians first used ice. Also how ice travels socially from culture to culture. An important part of early ice, was the Eureka, or the icebox, that was able to store about 600 pounds of ice. Before the icebox, ice houses were used by kings, and conquerors to store large amounts of ice. By the 1930's, an ice cream culture had developed.

During intense summers, people from many cultures would go up moutanis such as the Taurus range, the Atlas mountains, and the Himalayas in order to collect ice and snow. Snow was harvested as a crop and was sold in many marketplaces.

There are many traditions to how poeple can use snow. One Canadian tradtion is when the snow would fall, people would collect it right away while it was still fresh, fluffy, and pure. Then they would add vanilla extract and sugar, making "snow-bread". In China, there are very few commercial freezers, and very few people have home freezers. In China ice cream is only for children, and it can primarily be bought in the big Chinese cities like Beijing, and Shanghai.

Icemen use to go to a place called Walden Pound where they would harvest the ice with farm tools, cutting it into cakes and getting ten thousand tons' worth. But this method would soon be replaced as the first electric refrigerators were being manufactured in France and United States in 1917.

Quote
"In another e-mail from Raja Alem, she mentions that she and her sister, Shadia, used to mix fruit with snow that they collected from outside their grandmother's door in Taif, Saudi Arabia" (Powell 21).

Reaction
As Marilyn Powell goes into different cultures and stories about the past of ice and ice cream, I can already see that she has done a lot of history these different stories. As shown in the quote, she often times will mention personal stories that she hears from other people she has interacted with. Refering back to personal stories is a srtong method for Marilyn Powell to use, because it steps aside from giving the reader researched information, and it gives insite from other people and their relationship with ice cream.