The inside scoop

Donald Trump’s favourite flavour of ice cream is cherry vanilla, and he tends to get one scoop more than his dining companions. That’s presidential privilege for you. One of the warmest summers on record is about to get hotter as the Trump cavalcade comes to the UK this week, so let’s chill out as Robin Weir, the definitive expert on frozen desserts, shares some of the hundreds of thousands of things he knows about the history of ice cream

Let them eat ice cream The first ice cream eaten in the UK was by Charles II on May 19 1671. He had a banquet at Windsor Castle and he sat and ate a dish of white strawberries and ice cream, and all the other people at the banquet watched because it was that rare and that special. It was probably just cream-flavoured ice cream. If you knew how to make ice cream in the 17th century you had a meal ticket for life. For monarchs and dukes, it was pretty hot stuff to have a confectioner who knew how to make ice cream. What the Romans did for us The reason there are Italian ice cream makers in every port across the UK is that there was no work in Italy, particularly…

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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 7/9/2018

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