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The Black Role In Ice Cream History

Today is National Ice Cream Day in America, as celebrated on the third Sunday of every July by order of President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here are 10 things that you might now know about ice cream. Did you know that a black man started the modern ice cream manufacture in USA?

Chicago Tribune writes: "Who was the nation's first great ice cream entrepreneur? We nominate Augustus Jackson, an African-American. In the late 1820s -- when nearly 2 million other black Americans were still in bondage -- Jackson was a free man who left his job as a chef at the White House and moved to Philadelphia to establish a successful catering business that supplied ice cream to restaurants."

1 comments:

sweets said...

I knew after read this blog and he did a good role in Ice cream history.

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