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Published 2015
A likely place where “tutti frutti” was first coined as a culinary term is New York, whence the earliest attestation (1834) in connection with ice cream. See ice cream. Given the central role played by Italians in the development of ice cream and its subsequent spread into and around English-speaking lands, it is possible that the term was actually coined by an Italian. Italians were prominent ice cream makers in New York, London, and elsewhere as early as the latter part of the eighteenth century.