Gelato

Do you know what gelato is?
Gelato is Italy’s version of ice cream, with three major differences.

First, gelato has significantly less butterfat than ice cream's typical 18 and 26 percent. With the lower butterfat content, gelato is less solidly frozen than ice cream and melts in the mouth faster.

Second, gelato has a much higher density than ice cream. Ice cream is produced by mixing cream, milk and sugar, then adding air. Manufacturers add air to ice cream because it nearly doubles the quantity of their product. But, it cuts their quality in half. No air is added to gelato. The result is a higher quality dessert with a richer, creamier taste.

Third, gelato is served slightly warmer than ice cream. While both gelato and ice cream are served well below the freezing temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, gelato is served 10 to 15 degrees warmer than ice cream. Because it is less solidly frozen, gelato’s taste is further enhanced as it melts in the mouth.


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Heard of ICE CREAM City?

I always wanted to go to visit Ice Cream City in Japan when I was little ^O^

Some people also called Ice Cream City the "Namja town Ice Cream City"~ this spectacular place is located in Sunshine City World in Port Mart 2/F, Tokyo, Japan. It has 9 ice cream stores and there are more than 300 different flavours of icecream for you to choose~

Ice Cream City has variety of icecreams that are from different countries and this place shows the different cultures among different countries. One of the most famous icecream there(other than icecream that are originated from Japan) is "Dondurma". Dondurma is from Turkey and a lot of people enjoys eating this kind of icecream because of  its special features. Let me tell you about more about Dondurma icecream next time^^"...

What special about Ice Cream City is that not only it has over 300 flavours but also the combinations of the icecream is unimaginable and very surprising e.g. it has curry flavoured icream, chickenwings flavours, Nattō flavoured and even wasabi flavoured iccream, if you really want to try out Japan style food, YOU SHOULD NOT miss this~

Other than that, there is another place called "Cup Ice Musuem" which is inside Ice Cream City and it is special for icecream in cup containers, you can pick the flavour that you are interested in and bring it home with you~

here is the official Namja Ice Cream City website that you may want to check it out~!http://www.namja.jp/ice_cream

History of ice cream

Hello everybody~!! I am Geoffrey. This blog is created by me and my three classmates. They are Michael, Caroline and Pat. The topic of our blog is about "ice cream”.

I believe that everyone should know that what an ice cream is. Ice cream is a frozen dessert. It is a dairy product. Do you know the invention of ice cream? There are many stories surrounding the invention of ice cream. One of the stories is that Marco Polo finding ice cream when he was China. Then, he shared the recipe with people in Italy. Ice cream was brought to Europe by Marco Polo.

After ice cream was imported to United States, ice cream became popular. The reason is that a New Jersey woman, Nancy Johnson, who invented the hand-crank freezer in 1846. It is a first improvement in the manufacture of ice cream. In 1851, Mr. Jacob Fussell established the first large-scale commercial ice cream plant in North America in Baltimore, Maryland. Then, the development of ice cream industry is rapid. Ice cream became an icon of American culture.

 





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http://www.wild.de/wild/opencms/en/

The layout of our blog

This is a brief layout of our blog. Of course, we may edit it as time goes by, in order to make the blog much funny~


In this layout, it includes Title, body, slide show, pageviews and blog archive.


The slide show at the right hand side will show some pictures about ice cream.


Also, we will use picture which is about food to be our background.

In the body, it will contain text, image, video link, etc.

The body of every post may not be the same, it makes the blog much funny to read.


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The following is typed on 18-12-10


Our blog changes time by time, we had add a video bar on the right hand side to share some videos about ice cream.
A blog list, labels, total page views also been added.


Two more slide show had added at the bottom of the page, in order to make our blog much fun~


Hope everyone enjoy it~

That's not only an assignment, also a part of our memories =)