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How ice cream met its cone
Ice cream didn’t always come in a cone. Italo Marchiony produced the first ice cream cone in 1896 in New York City. (He even got a patent for it in December 1903.) But the ice cream cone really took off at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. Ernest A. Hamwi, a Syrian concessionaire, was selling a crisp, waffle-like pastry (called a zalabis) in a booth right next to an ice cream vendor. When the vendor ran out of dishes, Hamwi saw an easy solution to the ice cream vendor's problem: he quickly rolled one of his wafer-like waffles in the shape of a cone and gave it to the ice cream vendor. Customers were happy and the ice cream cone was well on its way.
Food Fact brought to you by Farm Credit Canada.
Source: International Dairy Foods Association website: http://www.idfa.org/facts/icmonth/page8.cfm
