The history of ice cream goes back to frozen desserts served in ancient Rome and Egypt. They were made from ice and snow of mountains and preserved below the soil. Later, ice cream appeared during the banquets at the court of the Medici, in Florence. Indeed, the Florentine chef Bernardo Buontalenti is said to have invented modern ice cream in 1565, when he presented his recipe and the innovating cooling techniques of Catherine de Medici.
She, in turn, brought the novelty to France, where in 1686 the Sicilian fisherman Francesco Procópio dei Coltelli perfected the machine which produced the first ice cream. The popularity of ice cream only increased as of the 1920’s as Italian novelty of Varese, north of Italy, where the first ice cream car was developed.