Our relationship with gelato hasn't been a secret this year.
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| We love Italian gelato. |
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We've shared our love of gelato with family who have come to visit us this year,
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and made sure that friends taste-test gelato on their tours with us around Florence.
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Some streets in Florence are even named after favorite gelato flavors. Here is "Chocolate Chip Way."
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And just when we thought we couldn't get enough gelato, the Florence Gelato Festival came to town this May. Mama mia!
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Here, in front of the Palazzo Pitti,
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we learned that gelato was the very first ice cream, invented right here in Florence!
500 years ago, an Italian chef, Buontalenti, made this frozen dessert for a Medici family wedding. (Members of the Medici family built the Palazzo Pitti and were the ones that financed much of the art and science of the Renaissance.) |
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| At the festival, we also learned how Italians make gelato. |
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| Joe couldn't resist getting in on the gelato-making action... |
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| feeling right at home here... |
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at Italy's Gelato University.
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Yum! I'm thinking you're all going to miss gelato when you get back home.
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