Now that it has been admitted in many mainstream news sources
that a George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter,
that myth seems to have been replaced by a new myth. The new
myth states that a black man invented ice cream in 1832 while
working at a Philadelphia candy store. The myth claims that
Augustus Jackson was “head chef” of the White House in the early
19th century and “invented ice cream.” Jackson was in fact
employed as a White House chef, though never listed as “head
chef.” The practice of eating chilled desserts containing
flavored ice dates back thousands of years to Mesopotamia
royalty. Special underground storage was developed to keep ice
frozen during the summer. The Chinese made similar desserts in
the summertime as well. The first modern recipe for an ice cream
like dessert appears in French cookbook in 1674. The first known
recipe for modern ice cream actually using cream and ice appears
in Mary Eales cookbook in England in 1718. A reference book on
the English in 1744 states “it i