Vanilla clouds and wacky flavours at new ice cream museum

Описание: (3 Jul 2018) LEADIN:
As Londoners bask in a long hot summer, an exhibit wholly devoted to pleasures derived from ice cream is promising to cool the temperatures.   
From today, the British Museum of Food opens its doors to 'SCOOP: A Wonderful Ice Cream World,' a unique exhibit celebrating the past, present and the future of perhaps the world's best loved dessert.  
Among the interactive exhibits, there's a chance to monitor your neurological response to a new ice cream recipe.
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From neurological headsets to vanilla vapour clouds, this exhibit explores the past, present and future of ice cream with a sprinkling of fun thrown in too.
Visitors can strap on this high-tech headset to see how their brain responds to ice cream. It registers the wearer's sensory reaction and displays it with colourful waves projected on the wall.
Elsewhere, visitors can stand under this flowing vanilla vapour cloud, as scented puffs fill the room.
The opening of this somewhat enchanted experience marks 300 years since 'Mary Eales' Receipts' was first published in 1718.
It's thought to be the first cookbook in the English language to include an ice cream recipe.
Coincidently, this year also marks the 399th anniversary of the first purpose-built ice house for ice cream, constructed on the orders of England's King James I in Greenwich Park.
"You're able to taste ice cream from the past right the way to the future," explains Sam Bompas, director of Bompas and Parr and founder of the British Museum of Food.
"So starting off by walking off through to a walking freezer that chills you down, talking about Kings Cross history with all the ice in the world being shipped into the into the cold storage units here in Kings Cross.
"Right the way through into experiencing ice cream clouds, glow the dark ice cream, we've worked with Ben and Jerry's on a device that reads your brainwaves as you're eating euphoria and you can see what's happening on your brain as you are eating some ice cream."
In this sub-zero ice chamber, visitors can find a vintage ice block picker frozen in time.
They can also journey down this aromatic corridor, named 'Timeline Tunnel,' they're able to sniff, taste and breathe flavours from times gone by.
At Conehenge, they can stop to sample more interesting flavour combinations, such as daffodil, cucumber and pear and carrot.
"So, we've actually got a timeline tunnel where you can smell your way through the different creams that were made," explains Bompas.
"Then when you go to 'Conehenge', our cafe you can actually eat all those ice creams as well.
"So, it's everything from a cucumber ice cream is even one intriguing flavour, flavour daffodil. So, 300 years ago daffodils were actually really exotic and they're also still massively poisonous.
"So, one of my favourite foods we've made is actually we've made the first ice cream that you can eat daffodil flavour but won't actually kill you."
Visitors can also explore a recreation of Agnes Marshall's cookery school. She was fondly dubbed the 'Queen of Ices' for her culinary creativity.
Here, they're be greeted by fictional character Ida Cooke, who shows them how to make a simple ice cream in just three minutes.
The exhibit, housed near London's Kings Cross station, claims to host a choice few items from the world's largest collection of ice cream paraphernalia.
81-year-old Robin Weir and his wife Caroline have collected around 14,000 ice cream related objects over 40 years - many of which are being exhibited for the first time.
The collection walks visitors through three centuries of European and British ice cream history.

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