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1、Unit 9 When was it invented-Fascinating facts about the invention of the文章素材AT A GLANCE:In the summer of 1853, Native American George Crum was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. One dinner guest found Crums French fries too thick for his liking and rejected the or
2、der. Crum decided to rile the guest by producing fries too thin and crisp to skewer with a fork. The plan backfired. The guest was ecstatic over the browned, paper-thin potatoes, and other diners began requesting Crums potato chips.Invention: Potato Chips in 1853 Definition: noun / potato chips Func
3、tion: Snack food made of a thin slice of white potato that has been cooked until crisp and then usually salted. Also known as Saratoga Chips or potato crisps. Patent: Never patented. Inventor: George Crum (a.k.a. George Speck*) Criteria: First to invent. Birth: 1822 Saratoga Lake, New York Death: 19
4、14 Saratoga Lake, New York Nationality: Native American Milestones:1853 George Crum invents the Saratoga Chip, a thin French fry, now known as the potato chip1960 Crum opened his own restaurant, featuring potato chips in a basket placed on every table. 1895 William Tappendon of Cleveland, Ohio begin
5、s selling potato chips as a food in grocery stores 1908 Leominster Potato Chip Co., Leominster, MA (later changed the name to Tri-Sum) 1910 Mikesells Potato Chips, Dayton, Ohio. 1910 George Dentler, Houston, Texas. 1913 Dan Dee Pretzel and Potato Chip Company, Cleveland, Ohio. 1918 Num Num, Clevelan
6、d, Ohio 1919 Blue Bell - Illinois 1921 Wise Delicatessen Company, Berwick, Pennsylvania 1921 Utz - Hanover, Pennsylvania. started as the Hanover Home Brand Potato Chips1921 Magic Food Co, later Golden Flake*, Birmingham, Alabama. 1924 Moores, Bristol, Virginia. 1926 Scudders - Monterey Park, Califor
7、nia1930 Better Made - Detroit, Michigan1932 Lays - founded by Herman Lay of Nashville, Tennesseepotato chips, potato chip, saratoga chip, potato crisps, george crum, george speck, native american, better made, wise, utz, frito-lay, invention, history, inventor of, history of, who invented, invention
8、 of, fascinating facts. The StoryAs a world food, potatoes are second in human consumption only to rice. And as thin, salted, crisp chips, they are Americas favorite snack food. Potato chips originated in New England as one mans variation on the French-fried potato, and their production was the resu
9、lt not of a sudden stroke of culinary invention but of a fit of pique.In the summer of 1853, Native American George Crum was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. On Moon Lake Lodges restaurant menu were French-fried potatoes, prepared by Crum in the standard, thick-
10、cut French style that was popularized in 1700s France and enjoyed by Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to that country. Ever since Jefferson brought the recipe to America and served French fries to guests at Monticello, the dish was popular and serious dinner fare.At Moon Lake Lodge, one dinner guest f
11、ound chef Crums French fries too thick for his liking and rejected the order. Crum cut and fried a thinner batch, but these, too, met with disapproval. Exasperated, Crum decided to rile the guest by producing French fries too thin and crisp to skewer with a fork. The plan backfired. The guest was ec
12、static over the browned, paper-thin potatoes, and other diners requested Crums potato chips, which began to appear on the menu as Saratoga Chips, a house specialty. In 1860 George opened his own restaurant in a building on Malta Avenue near Saratoga Lake, and within a few years was catering to wealt
13、hy clients including William Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Henry Hilton. His restaurant closed around 1890 and he died in 1914 at the age of 92.The idea of making them as a food item for sale in grocery stores came to many people at around the same time, but perhaps the first was
14、William Tappendon of Cleveland, OH, in 1895. He began making chips in his kitchen and delivering to neighborhood stores but later converted a barn in the rear of his house into one of the first potato chip factories in the country. At that time, potatoes were tediously peeled and sliced by hand. It
15、was the invention of the mechanical potato peeler in the 1920s that paved the way for potato chips to soar from a small specialty item to a top-selling snack food. For several decades after their creation, potato chips were largely a Northern dinner dish.In 1921, Bill and Sallie Utz started the Hano
16、ver Home Brand Potato Chips in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Salie Utz used her knowledge of good Pennsylvania Dutch cooking to make the chips in a small summer house behind their home. The hand-operated equipment Salie used made about fifty pounds of potato chips per hour. While Salie stayed home making chips, Bill delivered them to mom and pop grocery stores and farmers markets in the Han
