Welcome to our series sharing Food Holidays: September 6th, 2021. Its National Coffee Ice Cream Day which Charlie and I will pass celebrating but I could see David and my niece Alyssa celebrating today.
National Coffee Ice Cream Day
Caffeine and Ice Cream lovers unite for National Coffee Ice Cream Day September 6! Celebrating a combination that has swept the world by storm since at least 1919, this day recognizes a particular flavor that often goes unnoticed. Not anymore!
Coffee Ice Cream Lovers, today is your day in the Sun, and those who have yet to expand their frozen dessert palette, get ready to taste decadence!
HISTORY OF NATIONAL COFFEE ICE CREAM DAY
Ice cream is the ultimate comfort food and a perfect conclusion to a great meal — and so is Coffee. So why not combine the two and make something incredible? It takes time!
While Gelato and Sorbet can be traced as far back as 3000 B.C. and people have been drinking Coffee since at least the 15th century, it took quite some time for Coffee-flavored Ice Cream to come about.
Coffee may have been discovered in the Middle East in the 9th Century, however, it wasn’t considered a household beverage until after the 17th Century — that’s when the drink started gaining traction in Britain.
The French’s relationship with the Ottomans paved the way for high society to bring Coffee to the world. Venetians eventually figured out how to make Coffee sweeter and, voila, the drink skyrocketed to fame.
The first flavored Ice Cream was invented at the request of Roman Emperor Nero. His servants went to the Mountains and collected Snow to make a frozen dessert flavored with Honey, Nuts, and Fruit Toppings.
The invention of Gelato is mostly credited to Bernardo Buontalenti, a 16th Century Florence native who served it to the court of Catherine de’ Medici.
By 1770, Giovanni Basiolo made his success in New York selling semi-frozen Coffee and Milk products popular in Genoa. Finally, in 1869, Coffee Ice Cream was first used in a Parfait and then appeared again in a Cookbook in 1919.
Today, Coffee has become a staple in most Ice Cream Shops’ flavor lists and is a perfect pick-me-up with a side of sweet, creamy goodness.
- Get a scoop!: Most local Ice Cream Shops offer a Coffee Flavor Ice Cream and may even have a discount on this Holiday. Stop by and grab yourself a cone-full!
- Make your own Coffee Ice Cream if you’ve got a knack for making magic in the kitchen, try making your own Coffee Ice Cream! With today’s technology, making Ice Cream is easy. There’s plenty of DIY recipes online you should try out.
- Maybe Coffee Ice Cream isn’t your thing, but you can still appreciate a Coffee Dessert. Find a Coffee Cake or Parfait Recipe that you think you’ll like and give it a go.
5 COFFEE ICE CREAM FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
- Did you know 400 billion cups of Coffee are consumed worldwide, making it the world’s most popular alternative beverage to Water.
- But first, Coffee 65% of Coffee is consumed during breakfast.
- The U.S. is the second-largest consumer of Ice Cream in the world, just after New Zealand.
- Ice Cream Waffle Cones were accidentally made when a vendor ran out of Ice Cream Cups and turned to a Waffle seller to meet the demands of customers
- The sale of Ice Cream significantly increases in times of Wars or a Recession.
WHY WE LOVE NATIONAL COFFEE ICE CREAM DAY
- We love coffee. We drink coffee every day, and it’s nice to switch things up and enjoy something slightly different that we’ll still love just as much as Coffee.
- We love Ice Cream. Yea, it might sound the same as the above but if it’s wrong to love both Coffee and Ice Cream, then we don’t want to be right! Ice Cream is the ultimate comfort food, and it’s a perfect conclusion to a great meal.
- Coffee and Ice Cream is the perfect end to a meal. Desserts are considered a common delicacy which one generally enjoys following a meal. When Coffee came about, it began to follow that same trend. Coffee and Ice Cream together give you the best of both worlds on one plate. What’s not to love?
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
