ice cream

...today it's another story

let's talk about ice cream:

a little story directly from wilkiepedia

When Italian duchess Catherine de' Medici married the Duke of Orléans (Henry II of France) in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to France some Italian chefs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets.^[11] One hundred years later, Charles I of England was, it was reported, so impressed by the "frozen snow" that he offered his own ice cream maker a lifetime pension in return for keeping the formula secret, so that ice cream could be a royal prerogative.^[12] There is no historical evidence to support these legends, which first appeared during the 19th century.

The first recipe in French for flavoured ices appears in 1674, in Nicholas Lemery’s Recueil de curiositéz rares et nouvelles de plus admirables effets de la nature.^[11] Recipes for sorbetti saw publication in the 1694 edition of Antonio Latini's Lo Scalco alla Moderna (The Modern Steward).^[11] Recipes for flavoured ices begin to appear in François Massialot's Nouvelle Instruction pour les Confitures, les Liqueurs, et les Fruits, starting with the 1692 edition. Massialot's recipes result in a coarse, pebbly texture. Latini claims that the results of his recipes should have the fine consistency of sugar and snow.^[11]

Ice cream recipes first appeared in 18th-century England. The recipe for ice cream was published in Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts in London in 1718.^[13][14]

getting back to us..

please do not eat ice cream in the center of Florence...

they are just for steal you money...once i was hanging around with my wife

and she got the wish to eat an icecream..jesus they had only 5 euro cups or "coni"...

well i was shocked...Tourism for them is just a golden egg chicken.... so

i link you the best 10 "gelaterie" if you are patient enough to take a look just a bit out 

from the center of the town....

http://www.agrodolce.it/2014/04/29/classifica-migliori-gelaterie-di-firenze/

good luck!!!