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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1991 to 1995 - Next
1991 Salsa sales overtakes ketchup sales for the first time ($sales)
1991 Average U.S. food prices: white bread 70.5 cents; grade A large eggs $1.10 dz; milk $2.76 per gallon; chicken 89 cents lb; ground beef $1.65 lb.
1991 Patent # 5,000,000 was issued to Lonnie O. Ingram of the University of Florida. The patent was for a genetically engineered form of the E. coli bacterium that converts plant material into ethanol. If this bacterium escaped to the wild, and ended up in your stomach, would you get drunk if you ate some vegetables?
1991 Last remaining Horn & Hardart Automats closed its doors. It was located at Third Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City. Frank Hardart and Joe Horn opened the first Automat on June 9, 1902 at 818 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. The birth date of modern fast food.
1991 Charles Elton died. Elton was an English biologist who first developed the idea of a 'food chain.'
1991 World's largest burrito created, 1,126 pounds
1991 The famous Paris cooking school, L'Ecole de Cordon Bleu, opens a branch in Tokyo, Japan.
1991 The world's largest Burger King opened in Budapest.
1991 Jack Ryan died. Before helping to develop the Barbie Doll for Mattell, Ryan worked for the Pentagon designing missiles!
1991 'Cream' by Prince & The NPG hit #1 on the charts
1991 Japan agrees to stop using drift nets.
1991 The 'International Project to Save the Brazilian Rainforests' was launched.
1992 Electric bread machines are introduced.
1992 Emeril Lagasse opened Nola in New Orleans.
1992 President George H.W. Bush becomes ill on a trip to Japan and vomits on Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi.
1992 Christian K. Nelson inventor of the Eskimo Pie died at age 98.
1992 Benjamin Eisenstadt died. He invented the artificial sweetener, 'Sweet 'n Low (granulated saccharin and dextrose).
1992 The largest Barracuda caught with rod and reel was a great barracuda that weighed 85 pounds. It was caught off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
1992 SPAM Lite was introduced.
1992 First McDonald's in Beijing, China opened. It was the world's largest McDonald's, with 28,000 square feet, seating for 700 and 1,000 employees.
1992 The record brown trout weighed over 40 pounds and was caught in Arkansas.
1992 Lawrence Welk, champagne music-maker, died.
1992 SPELLING LESSONS - At a spelling bee in a Trenton, New Jersey school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, corrects a student's spelling of 'potato' by telling him it should have an 'e' at the end.
1992 M.F.K. Fisher (Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher) died. Fisher was an American food critic and writer, author of various articles, essays and books about food, and translated Brillat-Savarin's 'The Physiology of Taste' in 1949.
1992 The Mall of America opened in Bloomington, Minnesota. It was the largest shopping mall in the U.S.
1992 Actor Sterling Holloway died. He was also the voice of Winnie The Pooh, the honey loving bear in Disney's animated version.
1993 SnackWell's reduced-fat cookies are introduced.
1993 The Food Network premiers on television.
1993 Christian Kent Nelson died. He was the inventor of the Eskimo Pie in 1919 in Iowa.
1993 Cesar Chavez died. He was the founder of the United Farm Workers Union.
1993 The Red Hot Chili Peppers play on the Simpson’s TV show.
1993 The last episode of 'Cheers' aired on TV.
1993 Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 So-called 'killer bees,' Africanized honey bees, have reached Tucson, Arizona; a small dog was killed from a bee attack. Their original source was Brazil, where African bees were imported for experimental cross breeding.
1993 English author William Golding died. His first novel was 'Lord of the Flies' (1954).
1993 John Wayne Bobbitt does not appreciate his wife Lorena's expertise with a kitchen knife.
1993 Vincent Schaefer died. A U.S. research chemist, he invented 'cloud seeding' with dry ice to cause rain or snow.
1993 The world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich was created in Peanut, Pennsylvania. It was almost 40 feet long and used 150 pounds of peanut butter and 50 pounds of jelly.
1993 On the TV show 'Seinfield,' Kramer came up with the idea to write a coffee table book about coffee tables.
1994 The French Laundry restaurant opens in an old French laundry in Yountville, California.
1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
1994 The controversial genetically engineered growth hormone for cows, rBGH goes on sale.
1994 Whirlpool began manufacturing a refrigerator that was significantly more efficient, and did not use freon. Freon has been implicated in the destruction of ozone in the atmosphere.
1994 John Candy died. Canadian comedian and actor, member of 'The Second City' comedy troupe.
1994 Due to bad harvests, there is a shortage of Japanese grown rice. Japan's Imperial Palace begins serving royal meals to the Emperor & Empress with rice grown in the U.S., China and Thailand.
1994 Andre Tchelistcheff died. Tchelistcheff was a Russian-born U.S. enologist, was a pivotal figure in the revitalization of the California wine industry following Prohibition (1919-33) and used his Paris training in viticulture and wine making to pioneer such techniques as cold fermentation and the use of American oak barrels for aging. He was also an authority on the types of soil suitable for growing various grape varieties.
1994 The world's largest lollipop, 3,011 pounds, is made in Denmark.
1994 Roy J. Plunkett died. He was the inventor of Teflon (Polytetrafluoroethylene) in 1938. The first nonstick cookware using Teflon was sold in 1960.
1994 The FDA announces that the new 'Flavr Savr' tomato, a biotech developed food, is safe.
1994 Baron Marcel Bich died. French inventor of the Bic Pen in 1949.
1994 Henry Mancini died. Oscar winning music composer, he wrote many songs and film scores, including the score for 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'
1994 The London Times reported a previously unknown species of mammal was discovered in Vietnam, the Vu Quang Ox. It was the first discovery of a new large mammal since the Okapi in 1910. The ox is thought to inhabit an area along the Vietnam-Laos border.
1994 Crayola introduced scented crayons.
1994 A smoking ban in restaurants and bars in Maryland began today.
1995 Betty Crocker gets her own website.
1995 Blue M&Ms are introduced.
1995 Norman Van Aken opened Norman's Restaurant in Coral Gables, Florida.
1995 Peter Cook, British actor and comedian died.
1995 Pizza Hut introduced its Stuffed Crust Pizza.
1995 A smoking ban in New York for restaurants with more than 35 seats began.
1995 The Supreme Court ruled that alcohol content could be listed on beer labels, overturning a 1935 law which had prohibited it.
1995 On 'Seinfeld' Kramer began sculpting with pasta.
1995 Elisha Cook Jr. died. A well known character actor in films and TV. I remember him most as Wilmer, in the 'Maltese Falcon'.
1995 The summer was so hot in Missouri, that at the end of August, methane gas emitted within large bales of freshly-cut hay began to spontaneously combust.
1995 Orville Redenbacher died. Founder of gourmet popcorn company.
1995 Tan M&Ms are replaced by the new blue M&Ms. The tan ones originally replaced violet M&Ms in 1949.
1995 Edward H. Lowe died. He invented Kitty Litter.
1995 The Soup Nazi first appears on Seinfeld TV show.
1995 Maria Telkes died. A Hungarian born American biophysicist & chemist, she was a pioneer in using solar energy in heating applications. Among other things, she developed a solar heated sea water distillation system and a solar powered stove.
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