Scooping up ice-cream history.(Food)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: July 17, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The history of ice cream is equally the story of packaging and mass merchandising, says David Shayt, specialist in social and cultural history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The museum has on view through Aug. 4 a small display of ice-cream artifacts and business items. For the museum, "the story is getting the ice cream from bulk form converted into what is in the store - converting volatile soft frozen material into what someone can walk away with . . . to carry the cow to the consumer," he said before last Friday's ceremonies marking the donation of ...

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