How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun (24 page)

Tempura

“I had long . . . Japanese cuisine.” Takashi Morieda, “The Japanese Table,” Kikkoman website, www.kikkoman.com/foodforum/thejapanesetablebackissues/06.shtml.

TV Dinners

“It was very . . . for turkeys.” and “a metaphor . . . annual problem,” Roy Rivenburg, “A landmark idea, yes, but whose? Tracing the invention of the TV dinner opens a can, er, tray of worms,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 23, 2003, E1.

“I figured . . . some attention,” Associated Press, “Think of Gerry Thomas when you eat your next TV dinner,”
Gazette
(Cedar Rapids, Iowa), November 17, 1999, 8A.

Desserts

Chocolate Chip Cookies

“try a lot . . . husband’s favorites.” and “your goal . . . and hostess.” Ruth Graves Wakefield,
Toll House Tried and True Recipes
(New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977), 59.

“
no substitutes
. . . cream.” and “Certainty in . . . eliminates failures.” Ruth Graves Wakefield,
Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes
(New York: M. Barrows & Company, Inc., 1940), 3, 9.

Chocolate Molten Cake (Chocolate Lava Cake)

“as gracefully as . . . even riveting—meals.” Frank Bruni, “Two Trailblazers, Well Down the Trail,”
New York Times
, August 16, 2006, F8.

“legend . . . clean and simple.” Alexandra Gill, “Where’s the wow?”
Globe and Mail
(Toronto), March 25, 2009, www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article977186.ece.

“Baking one . . . miscalculated the timing.” and “screaming wanting the recipe.” Virginia Gerst, “This is a flop? Kitchen mistakes—like this molten chocolate cake—can live on and turn into classics with time.”
Chicago Tribune
, April 26, 2006, 1 (Good Eating section).

“He was the . . . in France already.” Arthur Schwartz, “Jacques Torres and Molten Chocolate Cake,” April 9, 2001, www.thefoodmaven.com/diary/00000167.html.

Cookies ’N Cream Ice Cream

“Swirl, smack . . . you’re looking for.” Liz Van Hooser, “Meet an official taster for Edy’s ice cream,”
Florida Times-Union
(Jacksonville), April 2, 2009, http: //jacksonville.com/lifestyles/food/2009-04-02/story/tough_on_ice_cream.

“I was in . . . invented by accident.” Tracy Rasmussen, “Way cookie crumbled gave birth to hit flavor,”
Reading Eagle
(Pennsylvania), April 30, 2001, A4.

Crêpes Suzette

“I was only 16 . . . that day crêpes Suzette.” and “unglamorous as . . . stand.” James Bacon (Associated Press), “Accidental Flame Won World Fame,”
Robesonian
(Lumberton, N.C.), April 19, 1961, 2.

“a jeweled . . . a cane,” Henri Charpentier, Boyden Sparks, and Alice Waters,
Life a la Henri: Being the Memories of Henri Charpentier
(New York: Modern Library, 2001), 57.

“I only make . . . and happy diners.” James Bacon (Associated Press), “Legendary Crepes Suzette Creator Dies at Age 81,”
Modesto Bee
(California), December 25, 1961, A2.

Granny Smith Apples

“is nearly . . . in shipping.” Roger Yepsen,
Apples
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994), 120.

Candies and Snacks

Cheese Puffs

“[w]hen streamlets . . . human consumption.” US Patent #2,295,868, Patented September 15, 1942, entitled “Process for Preparing Food Products.”

Chewing Gum

“It was an accident . . . something with bubbles.” Abby Goodnough, “W. E. Diemer, Bubble Gum Inventor, Dies at 93,”
New York Times
, January 12, 1998, www.nytimes.com/1998/01/12/us/we-diemer-bubble-gum-inventor-dies-at-93.html.

Doughnuts

“greasy sinkers”; “the first . . . mortal eyes”; and “Of course . . . we used to eat.” Sally Levitt Steinberg,
The Donut Book: The Whole Story in Words, Pictures & Outrageous Tales
(North Adams, Mass.: Storey Publishing, 2004), 69.

Graham Crackers

“high-seasoned food . . . the genital passions.” Ronald Bailey, “The new age of reason: is the Fourth Great Awakening finally coming to a close?”
Reason
, April 1, 2008, 32.

“enthusiastically embraced.” Barbara Brown Zikmund, “The legacy of this place: Oberlin, Ohio,”
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
, September 22, 2007, 499.

“Grahamites” and “poet of bran,” Charles Panati,
Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
(New York: Perennial Library, 1987), 414.

Jelly Tots

“I didn’t even . . . attention to it.” and “They either hug . . . ruining their teeth.” Grant Woodward, “Brian Boffey: Horsforth’s own Jelly Tots inventor,”
Yorkshire Post
(UK), March 9, 2009.

PEZ

“a luxury confection for wealthy people.” “Austrian Cult Candy: PEZ Celebrates its 80th Anniversary With a Unique Charity Campaign!”
Medianet Press Release Wire
, October 10, 2007.

“smoking prohibited, PEZing allowed.”
Food Trade Review
, March 1, 2007.

“pocket article dispensing container.” US Patent #2,620,061, Patented December 2, 1952, entitled “Pocket Article Dispensing Container.”

Pop Rocks

“Throughout the industry . . . one else considered”; “Carbonated candy . . . better to do?”; and “we checked . . . alive and well.” Marv Rudolph,
Pop Rocks: The Inside Story of America’s Revolutionary Candy
(Sharon, Mass.: Specialty Publishers LLC, 2006), 1, 21, 87.

Popsicles

“a handled frozen confection.” and “I was flat . . . same since.” Associated Press, “Frank Epperson, 89, Inventor of Popsicle, Dies in California,”
New York Times
, October 27, 1983, www.nytimes.com/1983/10/27/obituaries/frank-epperson-89-inventor-of-popsicle-dies-in-california.html.

“It has given . . . part of it all.” United Press International, “Popsicle inventor notes anniversary,”
Daily Facts
(Redlands, Calif.), March 16, 1973, 2.

Potato Chips

“fit for a king . . . could contrive”; “most credible”; and “Aunt Katie . . . plenty of these.” Dirk Burhans,
Crunch! A History of the Great American Potato Chip
(Madison, Wis.: Terrace Books, 2008), 16, 20–21.

Twinkies

“I shortened . . . the kids.” and “Some people say . . . never hurt them.” Edward Baumann, “James A. Dewar, 88; Created Twinkies Cakes,”
Chicago Tribune
, July 2, 1985, C6.

“WASP Soul Food.” Jerry Belcher, “Man who concocted the Twinkie dies; James A. Dewar’s Treat is part of America’s diet and folklore,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 3, 1985, 2 (Metro section).

Additives and Extras

Ice-Cream Cone

“He actually . . . tea cups.” Jim Salter (Associated Press), “Ice cream cone’s birth topic of heated debate,”
Grand Rapids Press
(Michigan), October 5, 2003, A5.

“Many of the . . . 100 years ago.” “Centennial ode to the cone,”
Chicago Tribune
, July 9, 2004, 22 (Editorial section).

Maple Syrup

“the chase”; “she might . . . the snow”; “strict compliance”; and “pleasant drink,” Rowland E. Robinson, “Old-Time Sugar-Making,”
Atlantic Monthly
, vol. 77 (1896), 467–68.

“picture pioneer . . . by none.” Vermont Department of Agriculture, “Sugar Making by the Indians,”
Bulletin
, 1914, 17.

Marmalade

“Janet Keiller . . . own marmalade.” C. Anne Wilson,
The Book of Marmalade
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 64.

Mayonnaise

“[E]vidently, he . . . Port Mahon.” and “[T]he Richelieu . . . makes sense.” Debbie Elliot, National Public Radio
(Weekend All Things Considered),
August 13, 2006.

Nutella

“Every chocolatier . . . make chocolate.” Clara Ferreira-Marques (Reuters), “Turin hosts month-long feast dipped in layers of chocolate,”
Star-Ledger
(Newark, N.J.), May 12, 2004, 40 (Savor section).

“famous.” Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine (ed.),
The Oxford Companion to Food
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 375.

“the Piedmontese . . . sweet taste.” Elena Kostioukovitch,
Why Italians Love to Talk About Food
(New York: Macmillan, 2009), 96.

Whipped Cream

“Yes, the chemists . . . the housewives’ cares.” Kenneth T. Downs, “You Mean You Never Have Any Luck At Whipping Cream?”
Indiana Evening Gazette
, April 26, 1935, 3.

Worcestershire Sauce

“as far as . . . in India.” and “We have . . . own truth.” R. W. Apple Jr. (
New York Times
), “Don’t ask what makes Lea & Perrins Worcestershire so special—they won’t tell,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
, August 30, 2000.

Drinks

Champagne

“The orgies . . . champagne brings.” and “These phenomena . . . from happening.” Don and Petie Kladstrup,
Champagne: How the World’s Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
(New York: HarperCollins e-books, 2005), Kindle locations 589, 628.

Coca-Cola

“Someone in need . . . Pemberton’s products.” and “The medical properties . . . mental depression, etc.” Constance L. Hays,
The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company
(New York: Random House, 2004), 96, 100–101.

Gibson Martini

“found himself . . . cocktail parties.” Irma von Starkloff Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker,
Joy of Cooking
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975), 50.