Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Neapolitan Ice Cream

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why Neapolitan ice cream is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

NOTE: there’s a past episode of SIF about ice cream in general (see below). You don’t need to hear it to enjoy this. Also you’ll give yourself a fun double feature if you do listen to it.

PREVIOUS SIF EPISODES ABOUT ICE CREAM AND RELEVANT FLAVORS:

• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Ice Cream
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Vanilla
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Chocolate
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Pistachios

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on Bluesky
• @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• A Taste of Naples: Neapolitan Culture, Cuisine, and Cooking by Marlena Spieler
• The Pursuit of Italy: A History Of A Land, Its Regions, And Their Peoples by Sir David Gilmour
• Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine by Sarah Lohman
• How Neapolitan Cuisine Took Over the World (The Paris Review)
• How Italian Immigrants Made Neapolitan Ice Cream An American Favorite (TastingTable.com)
• The Flavor Difference Between Spumoni And Neapolitan Ice Cream (TastingTable.com)
• 15 Vintage Ice Cream Flavors No One Seems To Eat Anymore (TastingTable.com)
• Reddit gif upload: “How neapolitan ice cream is packaged”
• Reddit gif upload: “Neapolitan Ice Cream pouring into its box.”
• Simpsons Wiki page for the episode “Radio Bart”
• Simpsons Wiki page for the episode “Bart Gets An Elephant”
• The Simpsons Explained A Joke Two Seasons Later (ScreenRant.com)
• Homer’s Odyssey Fragment Found In Ancient Greece (History.com)
• Myth of Parthenope: 3 stories of the foundation of Naples (VisitNaples.eu)
• background information about ‘The Modern Steward’ by Antonio Latini (Renaissance Quarterly / Cambridge University Press)
• A Brief History of the Ice Cream Truck (Mental Floss)
• Smithsonian Story: Space is the best place to eat ice cream (The Smithsonian)
• Three Flavors, One Carton (Tedium.co)
• Astronaut ice cream is a lie (Vox.com)
• Encyclopedia Britannica articles about the Expedition of the Thousand, and the Kingdom of Naples, and the Cispadane Republic
• Origin and history of Napoleon (Online Etymology Dictionary)
• Notes & Queries: Why do Italian teams play in blue? (The Guardian)