The lives of our ancestors were not always as simple and easy-going as we sometimes imagine. In the late nineteenth century, ice cream, a popular but poorly understood dessert, brought illness and death to America’s fairs and festivals. In Victorian America, ice cream became an increasingly popular dessert. As historian Edward Geist writes, it was also …
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Death by Ice Cream
The lives of our ancestors were not always as simple and easy-going as we sometimes imagine. In the late nineteenth century, ice cream, a popular but poorly understood dessert, brought illness and death to America’s fairs and festivals. In Victorian America, ice cream became an increasingly popular dessert. As historian Edward Geist writes, it was also …
Death by Ice Cream
The lives of our ancestors were not always as simple and easy-going as we sometimes imagine. In the late nineteenth century, ice cream, a popular but poorly understood dessert, brought illness and death to America’s fairs and festivals. In Victorian America, ice cream became an increasingly popular dessert. As historian Edward Geist writes, it was also …