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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1916 to 1924 - Next
1916 Electric refrigerators were first offered for sale, for $900.
1916 Nathan Handwerker opened Nathan's in Coney Island, where he sold hot dogs for a nickel.
1916 Prohibition begins in Virginia.
1916 Ruth Rogan Benerito was born. American chemist who was a pioneer in the developement of wash and wear fabrics. She also helped develop cotton fabrics that are stain resistant. Thanks to Benerito, your chef's jacket can be clean and wrinkle free.
1916 The Cafe Voltaire opened in Zurich, Switzerland. It became a meeting place for members of the Dada movement in art and literature.
1916 Funk Brothers Seed Company sold the first U.S. shipment of hybrid seed corn to Samuel Ramsay of Jacobsburg, Ohio.
1916 Coca-Cola started using their new contoured bottle to stay ahead of the competition.
1916 Roald Dahl was born. British author, one of his most popular books was 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' the film version was titled 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.' Some of his other books are 'A Piece of Cake,' 'Pig,' 'Royal Jelly,' 'Smell' and 'Lamb to the Slaughter.'
1916 The first Piggly-Wiggly supermarket opened.
1916 Cleveland Abbe died. Abbe was an astronomer and meteorologist, and is considered the "father of the U.S. Weather Bureau." The Weather Bureau (National Weather Service) was authorized by Congress in 1870.
1916 Sir Hiram Maxim died. An American born inventor. Among his hundreds of inventions were a hair curling iron, a mousetrap, an automatic sprinkling system, gas motors, and a machine gun.
1916 Mr. Peanut was created.
1917 The French government regulated the price of Gruyere cheese as a war rationing method.
1917 James Buchanan ('Diamond Jim') Brady died. An American financier and philanthropist, Diamond Jim was known for his diamond jewelry and his huge appetite.
1917 Clara Peller was born. She is the actress who is famous for her Wendy's TV commercial, "Where's the beef?"
1917 In France, Salvation Army volunteer Helen Purviance made the first doughnuts for homesick U.S. soldiers. The doughnuts became a symbol of the spirit of the Salvation Army's work to ease the hardship of WW I soldiers on the frontline.
1917 Patience Gray, British cookery writer, was born on October 31. Plats Du Jour (1957), Honey From A Weed (1986)
1917 Sugar rationing began in Britain as a result of WW I.
1917 The Chattanooga Bakery in Tennessee introduced the MoonPie, marshmallow between 2 chocolate covered Graham crackers. They were supposedly developed to sell to Appalachian coal miners as a snack.
1918 Wartime food rationing began in parts of England.
1918 Daylight Savings Time went into effect in the U.S. for the first time.
1918 Pauline Esther and Esther Pauline were born. Pauline Esther’s pen name was Abigal Van Buren and she wrote the "Dear Abby" newspaper advice column. Her twin sister Esther Pauline wrote the "Ann Landers" column advice column.
1918 Ray McIntire was born. A chemical engineer who worked for Dow Chemical Company, he invented Styrofoam.
1918 J.J. Wood patented a plow with interchangeable parts.
1918 Cesar Ritz died in Kussnacht, Switzerland. World renowned hotelier who managed various resort hotels, including the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo where he met chef Auguste Escoffier. Ritz then managed the Savoy Hotel in London, with Escoffier as his chef. Eventually he opened The Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1898, and was part owner in many other hotels and restaurants, including the Carlton in London. His name became a synonym for luxury.
1918 Ruth Eleanor 'Peg' Bracken was born on February 25. Author of the 'I Hate To Cook Book' (1960)
1918 Karen Hess, culinary historian, died. Some of her books were 'The Taste of America' (1977) and 'Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection' (1992). She also annotated Mary Randolph's 'Virginia Housewife' (1983).
1919 The Great Molasses Flood. On January 15, 1919, a large 50 foot high storage tank in Boston burst and sent a tidal wave of over 2 million gallons of molasses traveling at over 30 miles per hour. Houses, buildings and parts of the elevated rail system were crushed in its path. Twenty-one people died, and over 150 were injured. It took over 6 months to clean up the mess. The damage was in the millions of dollars
1919 Ernie Kovacs, innovative comedian, was born. One of Kovacs' first TV appearances was in Philadelphia in 1950 with a chef, Albert Mathis from the Gulph Mills Country Club, in a live unrehearsed cooking show titled 'Deadline for Dinner.’
1919 Henry John Heinz died. Founder of the H.J. Heinz company and creator of its slogan '57 varieties.'
1919 Marvin P. Middlemark was born. He invented the TV 'rabbit ear' antenna, and among other minor inventions, a water powered potato peeler.
1919 Congress passed the Volstead Act, which enforced the ban on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition begins.
1919 William Waldorf Astor Born. William Waldorf Astor was a cousin of John Jacob Astor IV, the great grandson of John Jacob Astor. He built the Waldorf section (1893) of what would become the Waldorf Astoria (1897). The Empire State Building (1929) now stands on the site.
1919 The Volstead Act was passed, which enforced the 18th amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages. It went into effect on January 16, 1920.
1919 The National Restaurant Association was founded.
1919 The California Fruit Growers Exchange began burning 'Sunkist' on their oranges. The first trademarked fresh fruit.
1920 Prohibition began in the U.S., which banned the sale of all alcoholic beverages. Gangsters flourished, importing and producing bootleg alcohol, and American drank more than ever. Prohibition was finally repealed in 1933. The end of the 'noble experiment.'
1920 The 50-50 Club opened, supposedly the first 'speakeasy.'
1920 Eskimo Pie Patent Day (Various years are quoted, 1919, 1920 and 1922) The Eskimo Pie was patented by Christian K. Nelson, an ice cream salesman in Onawa, Iowa.
1920 The first artificial rabbit is used at a dog racing trace in Emeryville, California.
1920 John Wesley Hyatt died. He developed the process for making celluloid, the first synthetic plastic. He also invented a water purifying system and a sugar cane mill.
1920 'Chili Bean' was recorded by Frank Crumit and the Pauld Biese Trio.
1920 Arthur Perdue founded Perdue Farms in Maryland. His son Frank was also born.
1920 Edward H. Lowe born. He invented Kitty Litter in 1947.
1920 Craig Claiborne, food writer and critic, was born.
1920 Justice Oliver Wendell Homes handed down the decision of the Supreme Court, which upheld trademark violations for The Coca- Cola Company against 'The Koke Company of America'.
1920s Caesar Salad was created by Caesar Cardini in Tijuana.
1920 Fortune cookies were supposedly invented in Los Angeles.
1920 Harry Burt created the Good Humor Bar, Chocolate coated ice cream on a stick.
1921 Studebaker announced that it would stop making farm wagons. Studebaker began making horse drawn wagons in 1852, and started experimenting with the new 'horseless carraige' in 1897.
1921 Pierre Franey was born. A French chef who became famous as the chef of 'Le Pavillon' restaurant in New York City from 1945 to 1960. He published several cookbooks and collaborated with Craig Claiborne on the New York Times food column, 'The 60 Minute Gourmet'.
1921 It reportedly rained frogs in Sterling, Connecticut.
1921 The boll weevil decimates the Georgia cotton crop and farmers begin switching to peanuts.
1921 The first successful demonstration of aerial crop dusting was performed in Ohio by Lt. John A. Macready. He was flying a Curtiss JN-6H (Jenny).
1921 Edward A. Doisy died. He discovered vitamin K.
1921 President Harding signs the Willis Campell Act, which prohibits doctors from prescribing beer or liquor.
1921 Harry MacElhone of Harry's Bar in Paris created the Bloody Mary
1921 White Castle hamburger chain was founded in Wichita, Kansas by Walter A. Anderson and E. W. Ingram. The steam fried hamburgers, 18 per pound of ground beef, cooked on a bed of onions, cost a nickel. It is the oldest hamburger chain.
1921 Wheaties breakfast cereal was created. In 1921, a health clinician in Minneapolis, while mixing a batch of bran gruel for his patients, spilled some of the mix on a hot stove where it sizzled into a crisp flake. After tasting the very first Wheaties prototype, he took the idea to the Washburn Crosby Company, where the head miller, George Cormack, took on the task of trying to strengthen the flakes to keep them from turning to dust inside a cereal box. Cormack tested 36 varieties of wheat before he developed the perfect flake. The name Wheaties was chosen by a company wide contest won by Jane Bausman, the wife of the export manager.
1921 Betty Crocker is created by advertising manager Sam Gale of General Mills. Betty is the fictional spokesperson who answers correspondence.
1921 French's Mustard was advertised for the first time.
1921 Chuckles sugared jelly candies are introduced.
1921 U.S. table-salt makers introduce iodized salt.
1921 'Lindy's' and 'Sardi's' restaurants open in New York City.
1921 'Wise Potato Chips' were introduced.
1921 The 'I-Scream-Bar' is renamed 'Eskimo Pie' and within a year are selling one million bars a day.
1922 Betty Marion White was born. She was the actress who played the 'Happy Homemaker' Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore TV show.
1922 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) died. In 1889 Bly successfully completed an attempt to beat the record of Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg to go 'Around the World in Eighty Days'. Bly was a U.S. newspaper reporter and completed the journey in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
1922 Donald McLean was born. He was a Scottish potato expert who supposedly had the world's largest private collection of potatoes, with 367 varieties.
1922 Thomas Edison patented a method for making metal foils.
1922 ‘Fruit Garden & Home Magazine' was founded. Two years later it was renamed ‘Better Homes & Gardens’.
1922 Blake Edwards, American film director and producer. Among his films are 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' 'Days of Wine and Roses,' and 'The Tamarind Seed.'
1922 The highest temperature ever recorded in the shade, 136.4 degrees F was recorded in a village 25 miles south of Tripoli, Libya.
1922 The BBC officially began daily radio broadcasting with the 6 p.m. news.
1922 Marcel Proust died.
1922 Charles M. Schulz was born. American cartoonist, best known for the 'Peanuts' comic strip.
1922 A popular demonstration at the 1922 Los Angeles County Fair was how to make toothpaste from orange by-products.
1922 William Isaly invented the Klondike Bar, squares of ice cream covered with milk chocolate. It was named after the Klondike River in Canada, site of the Klondike Gold Rush.
1922 Girl Scout cookies go on sale for the first time in July.
1923 Secretary of the U.S. Dept of Interior, Albert Fall, resigns due to public outrage over the Teapot Dome scandal.
1923 The Coca Cola 6 bottle carton was introduced.
1923 'Yes, We Have No Bananas' was written by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn. It was one of the most popular songs of the 1920s.
1923 Sir James Dewar died. He invented the 'Dewar Flask,' the original 'thermos bottle'.
1923 Listerine was registered as a trademark.
1923 Delmonico's Restaurant closed its doors, a victim of Prohibition. (Some sources list 1918)
1923 James Arness was born. Best known as Marshal Matt Dillon on the TV series 'Gunsmoke,' he also played the creature in the 1951 movie 'The Thing from Another World.' The creature was a vegetable based alien life form, a 'super intellectual carrot.'
1923 Nancy Green died. Nancy Green was hired to represent and demonstrate Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix. At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the exhibit was so popular that police had to control the crowds at the Aunt Jemima booth. Fair officials awarded her a medal and proclaimed her Pancake Queen. She played the part of Aunt Jemima until her death in a car accident.
1923 Jean Nidetch was born. founder of Weight Watchers, offering dieting products and services. It began as a discussion group for weight loss.
1923 Alfred Heineken was born. Grandson of Gerard Adriaan Heineken, the founder of Heineken Brewery. He was president of the company from 1964 to 1989.
1923 HyperInflation ran rampant in Europe. A loaf of bread cost 140 Billion German Marks.
1923 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are introduced by former Pennsylvania farmer H.B. Reese, who took a job operating one of Hershey's dairy farms in 1917 and later started a candy company of his own.
1923 The Butterfinger candy bar was invented.
1923 The boysenberry, a raspberry-blackberry hybrid, was developed by Rudolph Boysen.
1923 Charcoal briquets were introduced.
1923 Candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the Milky Way candy bar in 1923.
1924 Carl R. Taylor of Cleveland, Ohio received the first U.S. patent for an ice cream cone rolling machine.
1924 Abe Vigoda was born. American character actor. One of his well known TV characters was 'Fish' on 'Barney Miller'.
1924 Henry Mancini was born. Oscar winning music composer, he wrote many songs and film scores, including the score for 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'
1924 'Jelly-Roll Blues' was recorded by blues great Jelly Roll Morton.
1924 Clarence Birdseye, with the financial backing of Wetmore Hodges, William Gamage, Basset Jones, I.L. Rice and J.J. Barry, organized the General Seafood Corporation. The birth of the frozen food industry.
1924 James Earl (Jimmy) Carter was born. He was a peanut farmer, and 39th president of the U.S. (He also claimed to have been attacked by a rabbit while canoeing. He beat the rabbit off with a paddle).
1924 The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was originally called a Christmas Parade.
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