The US Navy banned alcohol consumption on naval vessels, bases and shipyards in 1914. As the US faced the impending threat of war, sailors needed an alternative morale boost: ice cream.

That fierce dedication to frosted sugar dairy led the Navy to spend $1 million on an ice cream barge. The branch, which borrowed the concrete barge from the Army, retrofitted it as an at-sea ice ...

Officially called a “BRL” (Barge, Refrigerated, Large, which sounds like a bureaucracy’s take on a Bond martini), the Navy’s beloved “ice cream ship” was basically a 265-foot-long ice ...

4 teaspoons (10 g) corn starch; 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon (115 g) sugar; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 3 tablespoons (15 g) powdered eggs* 3/4 cup (90 g) powdered whole milk* ...

To understand why ice cream could become so important on one of the U.S. Navy’s newest class of nuclear-powered attack submarines, one must appreciate – as much as someone who is not a ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Navy SEAL and ice cream maker aren’t two job titles you typically hear in the same sentence, but they’re both on Chris Fettes’ resume.