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　　Nobody knows for certain where ice cream first came from. It is said that the Roman Emperor Nero used to have fresh snow brought from the mountains to mix with honey and fruit juice to make a tasty ice dish. Another story says Marco Polo took recipes for fruit ices from China to Europe in the 13th century.

　　One thing we do know is that ice-cream making used to be a big secret in Europe. King Charles I of England, for instance, paid a lot of money to stop his cook from giving the recipe for his delicious frozen cream to anyone else.

　　Nowadays, of course, there is no secret to making the world's most popular dessert anymore. Recipes are easy to find for everything from simple vanilla sodas to the 12-foot-tall, world's biggest ice-cream sundae made in California in 1985.