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Chapter 1
Pursuit of Happiness
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Discovering ice cream
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Ice cream comes to America
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Ice cream and the founding fathers
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Classic French vanilla ice cream
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Maple syrup meets ice cream
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Chapter 2
Strawberry Surprises
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Innovation in an African-American tearoom
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Dolley Madison scoops into the adventure
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Hand-cranked ice cream machines; strawberry treats
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Real Philadelphia ice cream
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The Ice Cream Quick-Step
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Chapter 3
Birth of the Sundae
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An Ithaca drugstore proprietor pours on the syrup, puts a cherry on tap and calls the new ice cream dish a Sunday
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Cornell students spread the word across America
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Chocolate ice cream, candied cherries, cherry syrup, Cherry Sundaes
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Chapter 4
The Great Pretenders
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H.L. Mencken flames the debate on where the Sundae began
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Herein our author puts his hand to the fire to torch the claims of the noble but deluded municipalities of Two Rivers, Wis., Buffalo, N.Y., and Evanston, Ill., among others
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Who put the "ae" in Sundae
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Various Syrups
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Chapter 5
Split Personalities
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Atlantic City inspires the Banana Split, which first showed its awesome dimensions in Pennsylvania
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Walgreen's makes the Split its theme song; Americans From Lucille Ball to Louis Prima Join in
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Novel Banana Splits in New Orleans and New York today
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Chapter 6
Roaring Sundaes
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After Prohibition boots out booze, the ice cream cocktail flourishes--the Sundae's splash and verve swing with the times
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Try a Pink Lady, Manhattan as Lucky Lindy
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It's the Bee's Knees!
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Chapter 7
Sundae Rules
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Generations of Americans Have loved Ho So Go Sundaes
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Revealed here: the "secret" ingredient of Howard "Buster" Johnson's 28 flavors, the commandments of his Sundae Bible and what goes into a Scotch Fudge Sundae and other oldies
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Chapter 8
Fountain Speak
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"Drop a bucket of mud"
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We Listen to Sundae dialect as spoken in Lawrence, Kansas
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And we receive enlightenment on maraschinos and jimmies
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How the "soda jerk" got his name
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Chapter 9
Keeping Spirits Up
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The Depression was the worst of times for most, the Best of times for a few, and Sundae time for many
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Clerks splurged on the dime Sundae at Woolworth lunch counters while Walt Disney and Ginger Rogers built home soda fountains
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Dianne Surprise, Free Lunch Sundae, Budget Sundae
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Chapter 10
Sundae Makers to the Stars
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Even if Lana Turner wasn't discovered at Schwab's, movie folks crossed spoons there
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It was a wannabe magnet and a date place for Judy Garland and Elvis Presley (not together)
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But for megawatt power and hot fuge, C.C. Brown couldn't be outshone
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Recipes from both live on
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Chapter 11
Soda Jerk Hall of Fame
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Someone now scooping has great talent the world will honor one day
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Erstwhile jerks include two Presidents, Harry Truman and (surprise!) Jacques Chirac, Duke Ellington, a Banana Boat of actors, Halston and Malcolm X
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Peek at some of their Sundae wiles and personal favorites
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Chapter 12
Making the World Safe for Sundaes
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Some scooped to conquer, K-rations included powdered cream; airmen figured out how to turn it to real ice cream during sorties; floating ice cream parlors plied dangerous waters
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In the Pacific, Butch Baskin added tropical fruit
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Victory Sundaes
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Chapter 13
Happiness is Coffee Ice Cream
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The Golden Gate Bridge pointed the way home to Sundaes as they should be
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Earle Swensen opened a modest joint, serving the best ice cream some have tasted in years
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Blum's was more stylish
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San Franciscans adored such concoctions as Coffiesta and Irish Coffee Macarooney
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Chapter 14
Sundaes Go Soft
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As more Americans Buy cars, their Sundaes meet them on the road
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Carvel and Dairy Queen reinterpret Sundaes in the swirls and peaks of soft ice cream
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The Jack and Jill was invented for families on a Sunday dive
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Chapter 15
Where Sundae Time Stands Still
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In some special places, it's always 1955
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You can be happily nutty at Tom's Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville, Ohio, as at the much older Wittich's in Circleville
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In Austin, Nau's still makes Pineapple Sundaes; at Junior's in Brooklyn, the Mountain High Sundae is something to eat!
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Chapter 16
Sundaes in New York
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Once New York, New York, was home to several Sundae palaces, Rumpelmayer's and Schrafft's notable among them
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Now only campy Serendipity 3, haunt of Andy Warhol, survives
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It has a South Dakota Rival, but Wall Drug doesn't serve Rocky Horror/Sweet Transvestite Sundaes
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Chapter 17
Transatlantic Connections
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How do you translate Sundae?
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The intrepid author considers the parfait, which Isn't French, and the Knickerbocker Glary, which isn't wholly British, despite its cameo in the first Harry Patter book
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Never mind: Shuffle off to Buffalo, N.Y., where Parkside Candy will make it all better
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Chapter 18
From Russia With Guile
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He was a phony prince who entertained with fake Champagne and stale his signature recipe
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Yet Mike Romanoff was a lot of fun, and Strawberries Romanoff is a royal Sundae
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Chapter 19
Mother of all Sundaes
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Gala Putnam Emerson serves up the 17-scoop "Battle of Bunker Hill" at the Danvers, Mass., home of his ancestor, Revolutionary hero Israel Putnam
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Don't Choose until you see the whites of the marshmallows is the Putnam Pantry Sundae Bar theme
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Speaking of big, what about John's "Kitchen Sink"?
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Chapter 20
Lovin' Spoonfulls
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On the other hand, how do you eat your Hot Fudge Sundae and keep a trim figure, Too?
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Chicago's legendary Pump Room once had an answer, But today solutions are offered at the Shark and Rose in San Jose, and in Ed Debevic's new String of "old" diners
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Chapter 21
Sundae Heaven
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Special attention is due Chicago, where remarkable ice cream fountains survive
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At Margie's, you will find Sundaes in white plastic shells composed from the Recipes of the Sundae's patron saint
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Toronto's Caffe Demetre Sundaes are more Stylish versions of ice cream paradise
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Chapter 22
Songbird Sundaes
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Lillian Russell and Dame Nellie Melba sang for their Sundaes
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So the next time You eat a Peach Melba remember the diva who inspired Auguste Escoffier to reach A high note in ice-cream dish creation
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Plus some dish on waffle Sundaes
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Chapter 23
Southern Sundae Hospitality
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Watch ice cream being made in Searcy, Arkansas, where you'll hear home truths About more than ice cream manufacturing
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Then glimpse the Braum udder to utter Sundae experience
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And From Louisiana: a Praline Sundae and the Hot (Tabasco) Chocolate Sundae
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Chapter 24
Meet Me in St. Louis
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Crown Candy Kitchen shows us how it's done the oldfangled way
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There's a sawed-off Booth waiting there for you
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Plus a couple of old-style Iowa Sundaes
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Chapter 25
The Electric Sundae
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The Electric Sundae Contains currants and is loaded with juice
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A moniker may hint at its creator's vision--what was the girl who invented the Fried Egg Sundae thinking?--or suggest who--The Gold Brick--is likely to eat it
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Charting the ingredients of Sundaes with odd names
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Chapter 26
How Sundaes Won the West
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Explore the Rocky Road and other theme Sundaes from the Rockies, the Southwest and the Pacific Coast
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And if you think being paid to taste ice creams is a dream job, you're sight
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Meet someone who knows
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A roundup of wild-West Sundae recipes that'll taste good anywhere
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Chapter 27
Never on Sundae
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Our adventurous author ponders the wisdom of combining ice cream with pickles, raw liver as garlic, as serving ice cream atop a bagel, and decides sundae exuberance sometimes goes too far
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Recipes for those who want to go too far
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Chapter 28
Sex and the Sundae
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Sundaes are sensual, and nothing stirs romance like a hot Fudge Sundae
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Herein authorities from Stendahl to Jen on IV's "Dawson's Creek" have something provocative to say
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Recipes for lusty Sundaes are a matter of design as well as desire
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Chapter 29
Brave New Sundaes
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Aldous Huxley thought we'd down Raspberry Sundaes in pill form to lift our spirits
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Instead, we're eating inside-out versions (with the toppings in the ice cream) and fast-food flyers when we don't have time for the red thing
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Try a Sundae with the sauces outside the glass
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Chapter 30
Back to the Future
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All signs suggest that the Sundaes of tomorrow will return us to the best of yesteryear
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The wonderful news is you don't have to wait; the future is here
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