Ice Cream History

It is getting seriously hot out there today, so I thought of something cold and comforting to balance off that heat. I actually found a number of articles on the history of Ice Cream:
The History of Ice Cream from idfa.org (International Dairy Foods Association
Ice Cream form WikiPedia.org
The History of Ice Cream from The Old Farmers Almanac (Almanac.com)
Food Timeline FAQs: ice cream & ice from FoodTimeLine.org
History of Ice Cream The origins of ice cream can be traced back to at least the 4th century B.C. from Inventors.About.com
If you want to explore this topic in much more detail I found these sources on Amazon.com: