The history of this, perhaps the most popular delicacy, is traced by St. Petersburg historian and writer Igor Bogdanov from the 3rd millennium BC, when frozen desserts began to be prepared in Ancient China. Although the author provides many facts from the “world history of ice cream” (for example, what kind of ice cream did Emperor Nero eat, what desserts were served at the wedding of Catherine de Medici, and how popsicles conquered America), the main plot of the book is the “adventures” of ice cream in Russia. how technologies for the production of a sweet product that was loved by Catherine I were improved, and why it took the defeat of Napoleon’s army to capture the French methods of preparing this product; about how ice cream was made by single artisans and how the first ice cream factories appeared in the USSR in the 1930s. The book ends with a small anthology, which contains statements about ice cream by poets and writers. The author managed to captivatingly describe the history of not just a delicacy, but a real “cure for boredom.” This book can also be such a medicine. Contents: Preface Ice cream conquers the world “A charitable invention” “A new branch of industry...” “...flowers for women, ice cream for children” Russian ice cream is the best in Russia Conclusion Ice cream in poetry Ice cream in prose Chronicle of events Literature Thematic index