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 ...

To that end, the Navy in 1945 borrowed a concrete barge from the Army Transportation Corps that, retrofitted with heavy-duty refrigeration units, functioned as a floating ice cream parlor for ...

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 ...