An ice-cream cone controversy began in 1904 during the World’s Fair in St. Louis. Many take credit for figuring out how to serve ice cream without a dish. Who had the idea first? Was it Ernest Hamwi, a waffle maker from Syria who rolled waffles into cones for use by Arnold Fornachou, who had run out of dishes? Maybe it was Abe Doumar from New Jersey, who took home one of Ernest’s waffle irons. Or was it David Avayou from Turkey, who had seen fancy paper cones during his visit to Paris on the way to the fair? They weren’t the only ones who had figured out how to make what is now called a waffle cone. Italo Marchiony who didn’t even go to the fair, also knew how. Using homemade wafer cones, Italo sold ice cream from his push cart in New York City. He could make ten such cones at the same time, and he patented that invention four months before the fair opened. Greenstein’s brief account of how she solved this highly disputed historical mystery for the purposes of this story illustrated with monoprints overpainted with gouache. (Ages 6–10)