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TIMELINE OF GELATO

2500 BC

Egyptian Pharaohs give their guests ice with fruit juices.

Marco Polo travel to Asia and learns about the Chinese who are using milk, ice and flavours

1270

Bernardo Buontalenti invents gelato for the Grand Duke welcome Spanish guest with a cream flavour of bergamot, lemons, oranges, honey and milk.

1565

1846

The hand-crank is perfected in the USA and changes the way frozen desserts are made orever.

3000 BC

Asian Cultures consuming crushed ice and flavourings.

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Romans start eating the ice from Mount Etna with honey.

1500 -1550

Ruggeri competes in Florence, Italy and wins with a frozen dessert (sorbet).

1770

Giovanni Bassiolo introduces gelato in New York.

The Carpigiani brothers invented the first automatic gelato machine.

1944

1984

The worlds largest trade show and exhibition, SIGEP, is held in Rimini, Italy.

The first Gelato University is aestablished in Bologna, Italy, "Carpigiani Gelato University'

2003

2012

The worlds largest first Gelato Museum opened in Bologna, Italy by Carpigiani.

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