Food History

  Why am I blogging about this? Well maybe because food fascinates me, but in a different way. I love the history of it. Mostly how it began and how it became what it is today. How food became what it is where it started and how it grew to be what it is today.

   What do I mean by that. I love to know the history behind the food like Pizza and Cookies and Barbecue. Where did it all start, how did it all start, and did you know some of them were created mostly by accident?

    Yes if it weren't for a disgruntle cook cutting thin slices of potatoes and frying them in a fryer, we wouldn't have potato chips. If it weren't for a woman trying to make a chocolate cookie and cutting out a semi sweet chocolate bar, only to have it stay in shape, we wouldn't have chocolate chip cookies. If it weren't for an ice cream man running out of dishes at the 1904 St. Louis world's fair and having a waffle maker make a cone for the ice cream, we wouldn't have the ice cream cone.

   Some foods are thought up by pure accident, or genius by people who didn't know what they were doing at the time. A twelve year old discovered the pop-sickle, The Eskimo pie was thought up by a man who ran a candy store and a girl couldn't choose between chocolate or ice cream. So he made something that made food history.

   If it weren't for some ingenious inventors we wouldn't have the food we discovered today. I love food history. I don't why, but it intrigues me so, and I will study it more like those people who write the history of pizza or pasta or spam. I think I was put on earth not to only write, learn astrology and celebrity birthdays, but to discover a hidden talent of the history of food. We eat food everyday.
 
  There is always a history behind our favorite foods, how it started what happened to the people behind these creations. Corneal Harland Sanders (the man who gave us KFC) actually ran a gas station and made fried chicken as well, but everyone loved the fried chicken and purchased that more than gas, that he opened Kentucky Fried Chicken. He is now buried in his trademark suit and another is in the Smithsonian *or so I'm told*

 Ben and Jerry wanted to make Bagels, but that was too expensive, and went on to do Ice Cream and it was worth it. They are retired but the business still goes on strong. I love watching History Channel when they talk about food like "American Eats" mostly because you learn the history behind the food. And I know a lot about food, and not just eating it. Till then enjoy what you eat and learn the whole history behind it. Ciao Bloggers.