“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.”

Is there any food more universally loved than ice cream? It’s cool and creamy. Silky smooth. You can have it in any flavor you desire. Even garlic. Ice cream is the ultimate “cool” comfort food.

Of course there was no “ice cream” until there could be “ice-on-demand.” That means available ice when it was not threatening to bring down your roof or freeze you to death during a blizzard. Ice cream did not come into its own, was not tasted by other than the uber-rich, until both electricity and its kissing cousin “refrigeration” came into the mix.

It used to be “ice cream” was a summertime back-experience. The ingredients — eggs, sugar, vanilla, cream — went into a container with a crank-handle and a lid. You set the container in ice an…