What is Sorbet?
Sorbetto, or Sorbet, is typically made from fresh fruit, blended with the right amounts of sugar and water – no dairy – to achieve a wonderfully smooth and creamy frozen desert. 

Because it is made with fresh fruits or juice and no animal or dairy products, sorbettos are fat free and dairy free.  Eating sorbetto is like biting into a fresh piece of fruit.

Like our Gelato, our Sorbets are made with a balance of ingredients that give our sorbets a rich, smooth, and creamy texture.  The fruits and sugars are carefully proportioned to achieve a consistent product each and every time.

History of Sorbets
Folklore holds that Nero, the Roman Emperor, invented sorbet during the first century A.D. when he had runners along the Appian way pass buckets of snow hand over hand from the mountains to his banquet hall where it was then mixed with honey and wine.

With the fall of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Middle Ages many (if not all) of the delicacies that had been common to many different peoples were lost. Ice-creams and sorbets disappeared too, but not in the East, where the invention of iced drinks continued to be developed. It seems that one of Muhammad's disciples discovered a way to freeze fruit juices, putting them in containers that were then placed in other recipients full of crushed ice. This system, carefully perfected, remained in placed for centuries, indeed until refrigerators were invented, as a base for the preparation of ice-creams

At the time frozen deserts were brought back to Europe from Eastern countries. Arabs re-introduced this tradition, which started again from Sicily and was called SORBETTO, originating from the Arabic word SCHERBET (sweet snow) or - according to other interpretations - from the word SCHARBER (to sip) and deriving from the Turkish term CHORBET, sherbet. Ice-cream grew much lighter and more refined through Arab invention: sugar and new fruit juices, mainly citrus fruits, were added. Arabian creativity reached its zenith in Sicily, so rich in fruit and snow.

Like gelato, sorbets are believed to have been brought to France (and then to the rest of Europe) in 1533 by Catherine de Medici when she left Italy to marry the Duke of Orleans, who later became Henry II of France. By the end of the 17th century, sorbet (and gelato) was served in the streets of Paris, and spread to England and the rest of Europe.

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