What do you get when and Englishman living in Massachusetts develops the first iconic chocolate bar for baking? German chocolate. The year was 1852. The man was Sam German. He developed the sweet chocolate bar for Baker’s Chocolate Company. Here are 4 more foods you may or may not know were created in the United… Continue reading 5 Foods That Were Invented in the US
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Cobb Salad, Once Upon a Midnight Snack
Main course salads are over 100 years old. Cobb Salad and Caesar Salad became the first salads to be served as a main dish beginning sometime between the 1920’s and 1930’s. Both share a similar origin story, one rooted in pure serendipity. Both attracted the attention of the Hollywood elite. As a matter of fact,… Continue reading Cobb Salad, Once Upon a Midnight Snack
First, Television. Then, Baby Carrots.
Television entered the American living room and culture in the 1950’s. TV dinners were the next inevitable expression of human ingenuity and, perhaps, necessity. This in turn transformed the vegetable farming industry as niche, or boutique farmers shifted their practices to tap into the demands of this new food packaging. American farmers started breeding and… Continue reading First, Television. Then, Baby Carrots.
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