Ice Cream: The Delicious History by Marilyn Powell pg 83-122

Summary
The nature of ice cream, is that it is an intentional discovery or accidental finding. In Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History he talks about how salt is needed to survive. Also that many things used in the worl need salt. And thanks to salt, ice cream exists because salt plays a big had in freezing ice cream.
Even though ice cream needs freezing, it is only ever a partly frozen form. There are liquids in ice cream that always reamains unfrozen. If ice cream was totaly solid, it would be inpossible to scoop up. However, not making ice cream rock solid was a challenge in it's early making. Francois Pierre recommended that the mixtute be skaken several times during the freezing process to the ice cream would not freeze solid. The proper ratio of fat to air to ice was not yet known. Therefore there was not enough fat in ice cream to stop the ice crysltes from completely freezing.
By increasing the density of the base of ice cream, sugar lowers the freezing point. When the ice crystles in the ice cream begin to form, the ugar dissolved in cream, eggs or milk, becomes more concentrated which also lowers the freezing point. This process continues making the sugar concentration so high, and the freezing point so low, that there will always be some liquid unfrozen in the ice cream.
James Logue, an ice cream connoisseur, said that "The absolute best ice cream is served in little paper cups and eaten with plastic spoons. You can always tell you are somewhere serious when you get it served that way" (Powell 109). Powell then states that Logue was not talking about the presentation of the ice cream, but the quality.
After looking into the taste buds on a human tongue, Powell writes about how the ten thousand taste buds have sensative nerve endings that receive every taste of food. So if the ice cream was frozen solid, then it would make the taste buds anaesthetized. This is why it is important for the ice cream to start melting in a bowl and finish the in a person's mouth for the great effect and taste it has.
Quote
"Then the company began to capitalize on the apparent contraction between eating ice cream and wanting to be slim" (Powell 101).
Reaction
As Powell is telling different parts of history of ice cream, she also mentions a lot ice cream companies that contributed to the growth of the industry of ice cream. This quote is about a Canadian ice cream company, CoolBrands, which was big on Eskimo Pie for a period of time before putting Slender Pie on the market. As well as CoolBrands, a lot of other companies have had their own way on trying to put out a certain type of product of ice cream. The growth of ice cream is becoming even more creative. Powell gives accounts on how ice cream is sold in different parts of the world, and how these companies differ int the industry of ice cream.