Within three months of arriving in New York, her Papa abandons her, and her mother blames her for their misfortune-- Malka gets trampled by a horse, leaving her crippled. Abandoned by her parents, fate steps in---the man steering the horse takes pity on Malka, welcoming her into his home and world, where she becomes part of the family. The story progresses through her marriage to Albert Dunkle and her savvy business skills. In an era when women and the drive for success in business did not usually mix, Lillian faces obstacles and each one only makes her stronger. She believes that her hard work makes her superior and says wonderful things like: "So your eldest brother, Lord Such-and-Such, inherited the family estate, and you, Poor Thing, had to make your fortune in the New World instead? Please. Don't even bother me with that." She is "old school" and definitely makes her opinions known, and like anyone that's had to pull themselves up from the gutter, she has no time for things she considers frivolous and unneccessary such as paperwork: "Today, if one of our franchises wants to hire a sixteen-year-old to scoop ice cream for a summer, the management is required to provide more information than my entire family was asked to supply at Ellis Island." Which leads to some problems.....

The recipe we demonstrate in the video above comes from Agnes Marshall's The Book of Ices (1885). As queen of Victorian Ices, Agnes was a fantastic entrepreneur, selling books, equipment and teaching lessons on how best to make and mould ice cream. She also travelled across Britain lecturing, and published two general cookery books. Her two ice cream books contain some of the best recipes for ices you will ever come across – yet sadly, she’s virtually forgotten today. A rags to riches tale of Malka Bialystoker/Lillian Dunkle, a Russian immigrant turned America's queen of the creamy confection ice cream. lots of history about ice cream in America and how ice cream 🍧 made the soldiers during World War II *happy*🤗 As a mother, and let me say that I hesitate to criticize mom’s even fictional ones because I’m not one, she wasn’t great. Her mother was awful to her, abandoned her after a traumatizing accident and before that constantly blamed little Malka for the horribleness that was their LES New York immigrant experience. Yet as she became a mother, she wasn’t much better. I’m particularly thinking of older Lillian. She was awful to her son, just awful. She, in turn, became her mother and she so clearly did not see that.I loved the author’s note: “In my daily life, I’m generally obsessed with three things: “Sex, New York City, and Ice Cream”. (choosing the latter two) for her masterpiece. I enjoyed “A Conversation with Susan Jane Gilman” at the end of the book, sharing of her inspiration, thoughts, and process for the writing of this special story, which offers readers a more personal and real connection with the author and her characters---her passion is truly reflective through her writing!

Cachon, Remy; Girardon, Philippe; Voilley, Andree (2019). Gases in Agro-food Processes. London: Academic Press. p.291. ISBN 978-0-12-812561-8. Spanning from the early 1900's into the 1980's, Gilman holds no punches regarding the description of the times and hardships faced by immigrants. Brilliantly painted, we understand the misery suffered by those trying to eke by, understanding their drive to succeed and thrive. Hardships faced by many, feast or famine, rise or fall, challenges faced by all. Hopkins, John-Bryan (2018). Foodimentary: Celebrating 365 Food Holidays with Classic Recipes. New York: Quarto Knows. p.103. ISBN 978-1-57715-153-1. Her mother Susan then had three further illegitimate children with a man named Charles Wells: Mary Sarah Wells Smith (1859), John Osborn Wells Smith (1863) and Ada Martha Wells Smith (1868). Susan and Charles Wells were married in 1869, and the children thereafter discarded the surname Smith. [2]In the summer of 1888, Marshall went on a tour to the United States. Her lecture received a positive review in the Philadelphia Bulletin but she did not achieve the same level of acclaim in America as she had in England. [1] Marshall is recorded to have provided Christmas dinners for the "Hungry Poor" in Stepney and Poplar in London in 1889. She also provided warm soup to the poor throughout the winter of that year. [8]

If I’d been crippled by, say, a rag man or a coal vendor, I would never become Lillian Dunkle, as the world knows her today,” Lillian says. “Certainly, I would never have become a legend at all.” Lillian Dunkle is in legal hot water but she still The Ice Cream Queen. And don't you forget it, darlings! A special thank you to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Agnes Bertha Marshall ( néeSmith; 24 August 1852 [2] – 29 July 1905) was an English culinary entrepreneur, inventor, and celebrity chef. [3] An unusually prominent businesswoman for her time, Marshall was particularly known for her work on ice cream and other frozen desserts, which in Victorian England earned her the moniker "Queen of Ices". [3] [4] Marshall popularised ice cream in England and elsewhere at a time when it was still a novelty [5] [6] and is often regarded as the inventor of the modern ice cream cone. [3] Through her work, Marshall may be largely responsible for both the look and popularity of ice cream today. [7]Though she was one of the most celebrated cooks of her time and one of the foremost cookery writers of the Victorian age, Marshall rapidly faded into obscurity after her death and was largely forgotten until she once more achieved renown in the late twentieth century. Technology invented or conceptualised by Marshall, including her ice cream freezer and the idea of creating ice cream with the use of liquid nitrogen, have since become repopularised. About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: This story….(the true historical parts) ….are partly inspired by Lillian Dunkle….the celebrated matriarch of the ice cream business: from a penniless immigrant to an American food tycoon. But be clear — this is a fiction story.