Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and apple pie．But ice cream was known long before America was discovered．

The Roman emperor Nero may have made a kind of ice cream．He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains．He used it to make cold drinks．Traveler Marco Polobrought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China．

Hundreds of years later
，ice cream reached England．It is said that King Charles Ienjoyed that treatvery much．There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret．

Today ice cream is known throughout the world．Americans alone eat more than two billion quartsa year．

誰是冰淇淋的首創者

大多數美國人認為，冰淇淋像棒球和蘋果餅一樣
，是屬於美國的。但是，早在人們發現美洲大陸之前，冰淇淋就已經問世了。

guluomaguowangnilukenengpeizhiguoyizhongbingqilin。tazengguyongjibairencongshanshangbanlaixuehebing
，yongyizhizuolengyinliao。lvxingjiamakeboluoyezengcongzhongguodaihuilelengdongnaihebingnaidepeifang。

jibainianhou，bingqilinchuandaoleyingguo。jushuoguowangzhaliyishishifenxinshangzhezhongshipin，tazenghuiluyuchu，yaotabazhizuobingqilindepeifangzuoweihuangjiamimi，shoukouruping。

今天全世界都知道冰淇淋了，僅美國人一年的消耗量就超過20億誇脫。