Ice Cream Cone and Ice Cream Origin

      On July 23, 1904, Charles E. Menches established the idea of using the ice cream cone. There are several others who have had the same idea:Ernest Hamwi, Abe Doumar, Albert and Nick Kabbaz, Arnold Fornachou, and David Avayou. All of the people listed have invented an edible ice cream cone. These people have all sold or either made ice cream cones at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Expedition. This is known as the St. Louis Worlds Fair. From the time of the Fair, the edible "cornucopia," a cone made from a rolled waffle, became popular in the United States.
     
      Italo Marchiony, received a patent in 1903 for a device to make edible ice cream cups with handles. However, the patent drawing showed a container rather than an rolled waffle cone. Metal and paper containers were used by Europeans to hold ice cream and pita bread, while Middle Easterners used it to hold sweets. The ice-cream cone had come to America by "The Pike" (as the St. Louis Worlds Fair was called).

      In the fourth century B.C., a Roman Emperor Nero ordered ice to be brought to him and mixed with fruit toppings. Although there is a legend told that Marco Polo brought back to Europe a Chinese method for creating an ice and milk desert, recent scholars say that if he did bring back a recipe like that, it would not be from China. Over time, recipes for ices, sherbets and milk ices became popular and went to Italian and French royal courts. After the desert was announced in the United States, it was served by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Dolly Madison.