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Unlike chocolate chip cookies or tomato soup, the invention of bread can't be pinned down to a single person or people; instead, it evolved to its present state over the course of millennia. Although the modern version of sliced bread is a fairly new invention (Wonder Bread began marketing...
When was cheese pizza invented?Though recent research casts doubt on this legend, the tale holds that, in 1889, he baked three different pizzas for the visit of King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy. The Queen's favorite was a pizza evoking the colors of the Italian flag — green...
What if we had gone to bed 10 minutes earlier? The fire was right below our kid’s rooms. So scary. It could have been so much worse. I’m so grateful we were where we were, that my kids are okay, and for my quick thinking husband. ...
Los Angeles insurance agent Harry Baker invented chiffon cake in the 1920s, keeping his recipe under lock and key for 20 years. General Mills bought his recipe in 1947, and a year later, they revealed the delightfully airy cake’s secret ingredient (vegetable oil) in Better Homes and Gardens...
James A. Dewar, who made the world a little sweeter when he invented Twinkies 55 years ago, has died at the age of 88. Despite being labeled “junk food” by nutritionists and becoming the object of such unfavorable publicity as the so-called “Twinkie Defense” in the 1979 Dan White mu...
Where Did Hamburgers Originate – Who Invented The Hamburger? History of Minced beef…..but a hamburger is so much more -1st Century AD: Rome The first stirrings of what came to resemble a hamburger. They often served a ground- (minced-) meat dish which contained pine nuts, pepper, and...
When crops fail you don’t think the land is trying to hurt you, you just think it is what it is, or you try blaming it on God or the universe or something, but you know that can’t really be true. And just by looking into a field I figured out that man invented God to have...
We are every walk of life, existing in every known and unknown space in the universe since the dawn of time but we remained in the shadows until musicals were invented. We are all actively trying to kill Jennifer Coolidge and we love brunch. Like, love it. An iconic Season one episode ...
Or how astonishing do you have to be to discover that an artichoke has edible parts? Well, we may not know how either of those foods was discovered, but we do know how potato chips were invented. Potato chips originated in New England as one man’s variation on the French-fried potatoes...