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 EALTH CONCERNS ASIDE, when it’s 90 degrees outdoors, for some nothing beats the smooth, sugary sweetness of an ice-cream sundae. From the candied cherry that crowns its lava flow of melted chocolate to its base of vanilla that quickly begins to melt in the hot sun, the sundae in the U.S. is as much a part of the summer experience as a pick-up game of baseball played in a vacant lot.
What few people realize about this simple dessert, however, is that it was actually invented as a loophole to avoid stringent Sunday laws that prevented the sale of “soda water” during the late 1800s. As the wild frontiers of the Midwest transformed into residential streets and the bawdy songs of the saloon faded into “Sweet Adeline” sung by barbershop quartets, »
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