Book Displays: July ~ National Ice Cream Month

The International Ice Cream Association (IICA) of the International Dairy Foods Association (IFDA).
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of the month as National Ice Cream Day. He recognized ice cream as a fun and nutritious food that is enjoyed by over 90 percent of the nation's population. In the proclamation, President Reagan called for all people of the United States to observe these events with "appropriate ceremonies and activities."

U.S. Census Bureau Data on the Economics of Ice Cream

Read the text of the proclamation at The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara.

From History.org
Humankind learned to make fire hundreds of thousands of years before it learned to make ice...

The History Kitchen from PBS, with links to recipes & more.
This dessert has a very worldly history that stretches all around the globe. In India, there’s kulfi. In Italy, gelato. In Japan, mochi. It seems every country has its own spin on the delicious frozen confection we Americans call ice cream. This sweet stuff gets around! So where exactly did it come from?

From Ben & Jerry.
To get you ready for all the ceremonies and activities, we hereby offer the following 10 crazy (but true) facts about the last 3,000 years of ice cream.