复制链接It’s hard to imagine a world without ice cream, especially now with new ice cream innovations popping up around the world every year! This fabulously versatile dessert had to come from somewhere, so we made it our mission to answer that age old question – what the heck was the world’s first ice cream?
If your first guess was that it had to be sometime around the invention of the electric freezer, you’d be sort of right. The arrival of commercially available refrigeration kickstarted an explosion of frozen inventions, which led us to the ice cream we all love today! However, the origins of ice cream as a type of frozen dessert goes further back than you’d expect.
首先，我们需要承认，这个问题确实没有确定的答案。关于世界上第一个冰淇淋甜点，仍然有很多争论，我们只知道我们所能发现的历史记载。文明是由数不清的文化建立起来的，每一种文化都有丰富的烹饪传统，这些传统经过数万年的演变，其中许多人和我们一样都喜欢吃冰激凌
最早提到冷冻食品的是零星的记录，可以追溯到大约3000年前（我们知道，这很疯狂！）。在一些中东的资料中，所罗门王被描述为对冷冻水果泥情有独钟，而《旧约》中提到冷冻羊奶是亚伯拉罕喜欢的一种食物。在古代美索不达米亚，雪与水果泥混合在一起作为皇家点心，而古埃及人则将黎巴嫩山区的碎冰与果汁一起食用。
在所有喜爱冰淇淋的著名历史人物中，你可能会惊讶于哪个人可能给我们提供了最古老的冰淇淋食谱之一：亚历山大大帝公元前300年，亚历山大大帝以其卓越的军事才能帮助他征服了从希腊到印度的道路，关于他生活的记载描述了他对堆积如山的雪和用蜂蜜和花蜜调味的冰的喜爱。
A more likely candidate, however, for the birthplace of ice cream is ancient Persia, in modern-day Iran. By 400 BCE, the Persians had developed sophisticated refrigeration techniques with innovations like the yakhchāl, which were large underground chambers insulated against the desert heat. Being able to effectively store ice from the mountains meant that iced desserts flourished across the region, usually made from mixtures of ice, honey, masticated fruits, spices like saffron and delicacies like faludeh (slender strings of rice noodle). Modern iterations are still sold at bastani (traditional Persian ice cream shops) in Iran today, which could also mean that it could very well be one of the oldest surviving ice cream treats in the world!
在接下来的几个世纪里，世界各地出现了大量的冷冻甜点；从蒙古帝国蔓延到中国、印度，随后是欧洲。今天，我们可以享受到不断变化的冰淇淋景观，使我们的味蕾得到满足；所以，当你下次舔你最喜欢的一勺时，花点时间欣赏一下所有在我们之前的冰淇淋先驱者吧
