Gelato 101

Gelato is very different from Ice cream.
It is a combination of milk, eggs, sugar, and natural flavouring(or fresh fruits and sugar); Ice creams, merely turn most flavours into pastels.
Gelato is a less firmly frozen, softer, more intensely flavoured and coloured creation of the italians. They all melt faster than ice cream. The best fruit gelato is made from crushed fresh ripe seasonal fruit; the best milk based gelato is flavoured with all natural ingredients and has a silky consistency.

Glossary:
Semifreddo: "half-cold". Made from the same base as gelato but has whipped cream folded in. Vaguely resembles a mousse.
Sorbetto: fruit sorbet.
Granite: slushy grainy water ices.