Gaylia Taylor
Auteur van George Crum and the Saratoga Chip
Werken van Gaylia Taylor
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One of the dinner guests complained that Crum’s French fries were too thick and sent back the order. Crum, irritated, sent back a dish of fries so thin, they couldn’t even be speared with a fork. To everyone’s surprise, the guest loved them. Other diners began requesting what would soon be called Saratoga Chips.
George went on to build his own restaurant and featured potato chips in a basket placed on every table. In those days, people of color were not allowed to take out patents on their inventions, and Crum never profited from his invention. [Today, potato chips are eaten at the rate of 1.2 billion pounds annually.]
Bright acrylics by Frank Morrison show the patrons of Crum’s restaurants, and Crum in the kitchen cooking and inventing new recipes.… (meer)