ICE CREAM AND COMPANY HISTORY

ZYMARAS QUALITY SINCE 1982- WORK OF ART

The history of ice cream can be traced back to ancient Greece. Fresh fruits dipped in honey were placed in ice carried from mount Olympus. Ice cream was also enjoyed in ancient days in China, India and the Roman Empire. Ice cream was introduced to England in the 17^th century and to America in the18^th. It seems to have been called iced cream at first (1673), in line with such expressions as iced tea and iced-coffee, which we still use, but the form ice cream has remained.

1559: Ice cream appears in Italy when frozen ice and salt discovered as a freezing combination. 
1782: Ice cream is served at a Philadelphia party given by the French envoy to honor the new American republic.
1846: A portable hand-cranked ice cream freezer is invented by Nancy Johnson in New Jersey.
1851: The first wholesale ice cream business is founded by Baltimore milk dealer Jacob Fussell who receives milk in steady supply but is faced with a problem of erratic demand. Fussell sells his ice cream at less than half the price charged by others. 

1904: The ice cream cone is introduced at the St. Louis fair by Syrian immigrant pastry maker Ernest A. Hamwi who sells wafer-like Zalabia pastry at a fairground concession, serving them with sugar and other sweets. When a neighboring ice cream stand runs out of dishes, Hamwi rolls some of his wafer into cornucopias, lets them cool, and sells them to the ice cream concessionaire. But an ice cream cone mold patent has been issued earlier in the year to Italian immigrant Italo Marchiony who claims he has been making ice cream cones since 1896; other claimants challenge Hamwi’s right to call himself the ice cream cone originator.

1933: Nicolas (Kkolis) Zymaras from Angastina in Cyprus was the first man on the island who obtained ice cream recipes from a Lebanese man for £15.00. He started serving ice cream at home to his family and his friends. Then he started selling it. After a few years he passed his work to his son Antonis Zymaras who built up the ZYMARAS ICE CREAM company in 1982. Since 1992 his sons Nikos and Christakis have joined the company. The company supplies a complete range of ice cream for bakeries, confectioneries, coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, groceries, supermarkets, mobile ice-cream vans, kiosks, and ice-cream parlours.  

Known since 1982 for high quality products, our company uses modern machinery and utilizes the finest raw materials maintaining the concept of Italian artisan ice cream.

The availability of sizes and wide variety of flavours make our production one of the most complete and valued throughout the CYPRUS MARKET. 

25 years OF EXPERIENCE in the art of ice cream give you the MAXIMUM QUALITY and the MAXIMUM CHOICE. Our ice cream combines the most advanced technology with the finest ingredients giving the highest performance with minimum prices.

OUR CUSTOMERS KNOW AND APPRECIATE IT!