Chicken cordon bleu as a dish unto itself first appeared on restaurant menus in the United States in the early 1960s. According to the Food Time Line website, it is clearly an American recipe innovation. This specific combination and name did not originate in Europe. It was considered a trendy dish at the time and [...]
The 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu (1718 – 1792) is said to have eaten salted meat and bread during his distinguished naval career and according to food historian Solomon Katz, may have first coined the term. The first written reference was in Edward Gibbon’s London Journal of 1762 in which he observed sandwiches on [...]
Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders was born on a small farm in Henryville, Indiana, in 1890.
Sanders passed through several professions in his lifetime. Sanders first served his fried chicken in 1930 in the midst of the Great Depression at a gas station he owned in North Corbin, [...]
Ray Kroc, at 52 years old, invested his entire life savings to become the exclusive distributor of a milk shake maker called the Multimixer. Hearing about the McDonald’s hamburger stand in California owned by Dick & Mac McDonald running eight Multimixers at a time, he packed up his car and headed West. It [...]
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