Where is the birthplace of the ice cream cone?

Answer 1

missouri

Answer 2

First Cone?
1904: Countless visitors attended the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Many marveled at their first sight of an ice cream cone. But just who invented it? Several fair vendors claimed that they had made the first cone. Generally the glory goes to Ernest Hamwi, an immigrant from Syria. He was selling thin, waffle-shaped cakes. Next to him was an ice cream stand. The ice cream seller ran out of dishes. So, Hamwi said, he quickly shaped his cakes into cones that could hold ice cream.

Answer 3

1904 St. Louis, Missouri Worlds Fair of course, The first cone was actually a waffle.

Answer 4

the 1904 world's fair in St Louis.

Answer 5

St. Louis

Answer 6

wasn't it at the World's Fair in St Louis in 1904 or something like that?

Answer 7

New Jersey!

i love that state <3

Answer 8

no.. Netherlands.. you know how they make stroopwafels.. that's the ancestor of the ice cream cone..

Answer 9

France--sometime in the late 1700's

Answer 10

1. The Ice Cream Cone was invented at the 1904 World's Fair. (Probably True)

There are only small bits of evidence of the ice cream cone prior to the 1904 World's Fair: an 1894 recipe book for cream-filled cornets, and a 1903 patent on 'waffle cups' with handles. There's very little evidence of the existence of a true ice cream 'cone' prior to 1904. Given the abundance of stories of its invention at the fair, it seems likely (or even probable) that the ice cream cone was 'invented' at the fair. There's no doubt, however, that the ice cream cone was initially popularized at the Fair.

Various 'combinations and blendings' of the many stories below are often stated as "fact". Most stories, websites, and even the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (IAICM), credit pastry maker Ernest Hamwi for the ice cream cone's invention, when he rolled up his Zalibia waffle for ice cream vendor Arnold Fomachou, who had ran out of dishes. However, there are many stories, and most are impossible to verify as the ‘truth’ after 100 years.

* An 1894 cookbook by Charles Ranhofer, chef at the famous Delmonico's restaurant in New York, contained a recipe for rolled waffle-cornets filled with flavored whipped cream.
* Italo Marchiony, an Italian immigrant, sold his homemade ice cream (lemon ice) from a pushcart (hokey-pokey) on Wall Street in New York City. To reduce his overhead from lost dishes, in 1896 he began baking and using edible waffle cups with sloping sides and a flat bottom for his lemon ice. On September 22, 1903, he filed a patent application out of the city and state of New York, and U.S. Patent No. 746,971 was issued to him on December 15, 1903.
o His patent drawings show a mold for shaping small edible cups, complete with tiny handles - not a cone. When cones became popular after the St. Louis Fair, he tried to protect his patent through legal channels but failed. It wasn't until Marchiony's obituary was printed in the New York Times on October 29, 1954 that this story was made public.
o According to one website about Marchiony, in 1904 he took his confection to the Louisiana Exposition in St. Louis. While there, he ran out of his patented cups and asked a waffle maker in the next booth to roll the waffles in to the shape of a cone. Because of the success at the Exposition, the idea of an edible ice cream container spread throughout the country. Marchiony's company thrived at 219 Grand Street in Hoboken, turning out ice cream cones and wafers until his plant was destroyed by fire in 1934. He retired from his business in 1938 and died in 1954 at the age of 86.
* Several stories exist about the 'invention' of the Ice Cream cone at the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, where there were about fifty ice cream stands and a large number of waffle shops (according to various websites; but this number is undocumented in official World's Fair literature).

1. The first version is said to be "official" by the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (IAICM). It credits Syrian immigrant and pastry maker Ernest Hamwi with coming to the aid of Arnold Fomachou, a teenage ice cream vendor (who ran out of dishes). He rolled the ice cream into crisp wafers that he called a Zalibia (a wafer-thin, waffle-like confection sprinkled with sugar). Ice cream concessionaires all over the fairgrounds began to purchase his waffles, calling them "cornucopias", and the World's Fair Cornucopia was born. After the fair, Hamwi sold his waffle oven to J. P. Heckle, and helped him develop and open the Cornucopia Waffle Company. In 1910, Hamwi opened the Missouri Cone Company.
2. Another popular version dates the invention of the ice cream cone on July 23, 1904, according to the Library of Congress. It credits Charles Robert Minches (also, more popularly, Menches) and his brother Frank, who ran various concessions at fairs and events across the Midwest. The brothers' family claims that they invented the ice cream cone at the 1904 Fair when a lady friend, for daintier eating, took one layer of an ice cream sandwich and rolled it into a cone around the ice cream (as documented in Famous First Facts by Joseph Nathan Kane). After the fair, Charles and his brother started a business called the Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy Company in Akron, Ohio. (The Menches brothers are also credited with the invention of candy-coated peanuts and popcorn, today known as Cracker Jacks, and the first hamburger.)
3. Abe Doumar, a Lebanese immigrant, also claimed to have invented the ice cream cone in a very similar way at the Fair, where he worked at the Jerusalem exhibit. He turned his penny waffle into a 10-cent cone when he added ice cream. He later set up business at Coney Island, New Jersey, with three partners in 1905. His son, Albert, later wrote a family history called The Saga of the Ice Cream Cone. Albert Doumar provided papers, photos, and parts of the original cone machine for the Smithsonian Institution, who has noted that though many claim credit for inventing the ice cream cone, there is no doubt the machine is the real deal.
4. The family of Nick Kabbaz, an Syrian immigrant, claims that he and his brother, Albert, were the originators of the cone. The Kabbaz brothers may have worked for Ernest Hamwi. Kabbaz was later president of the St. Louis Ice Cream Cone Company.
5. Turkish Immigrant David Avayou, an owner of several ice cream shops in New Jersey, also claimed the invention of the cone when he substituted an edible cone for a paper cone. After the Fair, he set up an ice cream cone concession at a Philadelphia department store.

* Finally, a patent on automatic machinery for making cones was filed in 1912 by Frederick Bruckman of Portland, Oregon.