Which Country Invented Ice Cream? - Chowhound

Although the earliest forms of frozen dessert appear to have come from China, it could easily be argued that the Persians played the most prominent role in this dessert's evolution. For starters, they invented a type of pyramid-shaped ice hut called a yakhchāl, which is perhaps the earliest predecessor of the freezer. By 400 B.C. two centuries before the earliest evidence of ice cream in China, Persians were…