ITHACA, NY:According to local legend, backed up by solid historical scholarship, Ithaca was the birthplace of the ice cream sundae.
Research by Gretchen Sachse, Tompkins County Historian and the DeWitt Historical Society provide a fairly detailed account of how this wonderful dessert came to be.
It seems that one hot Sunday afternoon in 1891, John M. Scott, the pastor of the Unitarian Church, and one of his faithful parishioners, Chester Platt, repaired to the latter's drug store for some refreshment and a review of the just concluded sermon.
At his store, the Platt & Colt Pharmacy (located at what is now 216 East State Street), Mr. Platt got two dishes of ice cream from Miss DeForest Christiance, who was tending the soda fountain. He plopped a candied cherry on top of each dish of ice cream and covered the whole thing with cherry syrup, "on a whim". More.
Sundae Wars:
IT started as a friendly rivalry between Ithaca, New York, and Two Rivers, Wisconsin, both laying claim to having served the first ice cream sundae. Two Rivers composed a fight song, then Ithaca responded with an official proclamation. It was just a matter of time before "Sundae Wars" became national news. Follow the story.
Ice cream's history gets a sweet review
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