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What food items or facts are 100-years-old? According to James Trager (The Food Chronology) Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. was incorporated on February 19, 1906. The Kelloggs have added malt, sugar and salt to improve their cereal’s taste and wrapped the boxes in waxed paper to keep the cereal fresh. Two-thirds of the company’s budget is dedicated to advertising. Sales of Jell-O reach nearly $1 million.
Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. is founded at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Italian-American entrepreneur Amedeo Obici, 19, who arrived in America seven year’s early without money and unable to speak English. The hot dog gets its name from a cartoon by Chicago cartoonist Thomas Aloysius “Tad” Dorgan, 1929, who shows a dachshund inside a frankfurter bun. Commercial kiwifruit cultivation begins in New Zealand. Kiwis originally came from China, where they are called yang tao. In 1906, they were imported to New Zealand and renamed the Chinese gooseberry. They became popular in the U.S. around the late 1970's when grocers marketed them as kiwis. C.W. Post perfects his Post Toasties corn flakes, which compete for sales with Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
Libby buys a milk condensery at Morrison, Illinois and begins packing canned milk. E.A. Stuart’s Carnation Milk adopts the slogan “The milk from contented cows.” A Chicago advertising man has created the slogan. Bouillon cube is invented. You have to wait another year to celebrate the 100-year-birthday of a Hershey’s Kiss. They are not invented until 1907! More rich food history
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These are great books for learning more about your collectible cookbook. Allen, Colonel Bob. 1990, A Guide to Collecting Cookbooks, Collector Books, Padaucah, KY, 213 pages. Barile, Mary. 1994, Cookbooks Worth Collecting: The History and Lore of Notable Cookbooks, with Complete Bibliographic Listings and Up-To-Date Values, Wallace-Homestead Books Co., Radnor, PA., 232 pages. Dickinson, Linda J. 1990, Price Guide to Cookbooks and Recipe Leaflets, Collector Books, Paducah, KY, 189 pages. DuSablon, Mary Anna. 1994, America’s Collectible Cookbooks: The History, The Politics, The REcipes, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, 214 pages. My favorite food timeline is located at: http://www.foodtimeline.org/ This website has wonderful food history and trivia. Worth taking a look at this site! Do you have a favorite food history link? Email me at: Cheryl@croppingcooks.com |
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Sauce is introduced to the United States from England by G.F. Heublein &
Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut. A chef to George IV created the sauce in the
1820s.