Once upon a time, hundreds of years ago, Charles I of England hosted a sumptuous state banquet for many of his friends and family. The meal, consisting of many delicacies of the day, had been simply superb but the “coup de grace” was yet to come. After much preparation, the King’s french chef had concocted an apparently new dish. It was cold and resembled fresh-fallen snow but was much creamier and sweeter than any other after-dinner dessert. The guests were delighted, as was Charles, who summoned the cook and asked him not to divulge the recipe for his frozen cream. The King wanted the delicacy to be served only at the Royal table and offered the cook 500 pounds a year to keep it that way. Sometime later, however, poor Charles fell into disfavour with his people and was beheaded in 1649. But by that time, the secret of the frozen cream remained a secret no more. The cook, named DeMirco, had not kept his promise.
This story is just one of many of the fascinating tales which surround the evolution of our country’s most popular dessert, ice cream. It is likely that ice cream was not invented, but rather came to be over years of similar efforts. Indeed, the Roman Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar is said to have sent slaves to the mountains to bring snow and ice to cool and freeze the fruit drinks he was so fond of. Centuries later, the Italian Marco Polo returned from his famous journey to the Far East with a recipe for making water ices resembling modern day sherbets.
In 1774, a caterer named Phillip Lenzi announced in a New York newspaper that he had just arrived from London and would be offering for sale various confections, including ice cream. Dolly Madison, wife of U.S. President James Madison, served ice cream at her husband’s Inaugural Ball in 1813. Commercial production was begun in North America in Baltimore, Maryland, 1851, by Mr. Jacob Fussell, now known as the father of the American ice cream industry. The first Canadian to start selling ice cream was Thomas Webb of Toronto, a confectioner, around 1850. William Neilson produced his first commercial batch of ice cream on Gladstone Ave. in Toronto in 1893, and his company produced ice cream at that location for close to 100 years. The ice cream division of Neilson was recently purchased by Ault Foods of London, Ont.

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Kebiasaan jajan sepertinya dialami hampir semua anak balita. Bukti kecil dapat kita lihat dari banyaknya penjual jajanan atau warung-warung yang menjajakan makanan ringan atau makanan jajanan untuk anak. Sebagai orang tua kadang susah mencegah anak untuk tidak jajan. tangisan dan teriakan si anak kadang menyertai larangan untuk jajan tersebut, yang akhirnya kebanyakan orang tua meluluskan permintaan anak untuk jajan.

Sebenarnya kebiasaan jajan pada balita masih bisa kita kontrol, karena memang tugas orang tua untuk mengontrolnya. Intinya pilihlah jajanan yang sehat dan bersih. Pilihlah jajanan yang tidak terlalu tinggi kadar karbohidrat sederhananya (gula dan tepung terigu) dan jangan terlalu berlemak serta pilihlah jajanan yang tidak mengandung Mono Sodium Glutamat (MSG). JIka si balita terlalu banyak mengkonsumsi makanan yang terbuat dari tepung terigu dan gula, diperkirakan akan terjadi obesitas pada si anak. Begitu juga dengan jajanan yang banyak mengandung lemak jenuh dan serat kurang seperti fast food. Mengkonsumsi fast food tidak dilarang namun harus diimbangi dengan makan buah dan sayur.

Kebiasaan jajan es krim juga perlu kita kontrol. Bila setiap hari si balita makan es krim, bukan tidak mungkin si anak akan over weight karena kandungan gula dan tepung yang ada di dalam es krim tersebut. Namun, jika kebiasaan jajan es krim tersebut hanya dilakukan seminggu sekali sepertinya masih bisa dikatakan normal untuk si anak.

Mencermati timbulnya kebiasaan jajan pada balita, ternyata dapat disebabkan oleh kebiasaan orang tua yang menyukai gaya hidup jajan, kurangnya variasi makanan di rumah, dan pengaruh lingkungan. Pengaruh lingkungan dapat terjadi ketika si balita tergiur melihat teman-temannya menyantap jajanan. Melarang si anak untuk tidak jajan mungkin sulit untuk dilakukan, namun sebagai orang tua jika kebiasaan jajan pada balita sudah memberikan dampak negatif maka sudah sepatutnya mengambil langkah-langkah tertentu untuk mengurangi kebiasaan jajan ini.

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