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gelato is a food preparation made with a blends of ingredients brought to solid or paste-like state by freezing and, at the same time, stirring. The recipe includes such ingredients as milk and eggs, but can also be made with fruit.
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We don't know whether it was Ruggeri, the poultry dealer and amateur cook, or the fine artist Bernardo Buontalenti, but we do know that the origin of gelato can be traced back to Florence.
No true research or essay on the origin of gelato could neglect the pivotal importance of the Tuscan city when it comes to the invention of gelato in the form that is closest to what we know today. The time was bustling with great inventions and art and culture were reawakening; obviously the same can be said for cuisine. Of course, we are talking about the Renaissance.
In the early decades of the XVII century, as history books go, a poultry dealer and "amateur" cook who went under the name of Ruggeri took part in a contest set up by the rulers of Florence, the Medici, on the theme: "the most peculiar dish ever seen ". Ruggeri resorted to some old recipes to prepare a cold dessert; the jurors were so enthused about it that he Ruggeri won the contest. The word about this "sugary and scented water ice" spread all over Tuscany and when Catherine de' Medici, fourteen years of age, was about to set out to France to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans and soon-to-be king, she made it perfectly clear that Ruggeri was supposed to follow her together with the best family cooks.
Bernardo Buontalenti was born in 1536 in Florence. A multi faceted and versatile artist, he was painter, sculptor, architect, stage decorator, weapon maker, and was also in charge of organizing court parties for the de' Medici family. Appointed by Cosimo I to supervise the set up of an inaugural banquet at Fortezza del Belvedere, in 1559 Buontalenti stunned the guests with a cold cream made with milk, honey, egg yolk, a sprinkle of wine and, finally, a final touch of bergamot, lemon and orange for flavour.
Thus, if the name of Florentine gelato had been exported to France thanks to Catherine de' Medici, it was thanks to some Spanish guests of the Medici seignory, after trying the tasty cold dessert prepared by Buontalenti, who brought it back and advertised it in their country of origin. Thus, thanks to the combined action of the two, in a few years Florence made itself a reputation for being the birthplace of gelato, thus laying the ground to a still unsurpassed culinary tradition.