FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1900 to 1905 - Next
1900 Campbell's Soup won a gold medal for their condensed soups at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
1900 Chiclets chewing gum, with a hard sugar coating, was introduced
1900 Dos Equis (XX) Mexican Beer was first brewed in 1900 and was originally named 'Siglo XX' to signify the new millennium. Now it is simply called Dos Equis 'XX'.
1900 Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar was created.
1900 Ferdinand Carre died. In 1859 he invented the ammonia vapor compression system for refrigeration. Vapor compression is still the system most widely used today.
1900 Charles Elton was born. Elton was an English biologist who first developed the idea of a 'food chain.'
1900 Fred Waring, musician, was born. Frederick Osius worked on improving the electric blender, and went to Waring for financial backing. Waring backed its development, in part, so he could puree raw vegetables for the ulcer diet his doctors prescribed. The Waring Blender (originally called the Miracle Mixer) debuted in 1937 and sold for $29.75. By 1954 one million Waring Blendors had been sold.
1900 One of the many claims to the origin of the hamburger, is that Louis Lassing (or Lassen) first served hamburgers on a bun in his diner in New Haven, Connecticut.
1900 Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time in Britain.
1900 Sir John Bennet Lawes died. An English agronomist, he founded the artificial fertilizer industry. Together with Sir Joseph Gilbert, they conducted agricultural experiments at Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world. They are considered the founding fathers of agricultural sciences.
1900 Hotelier John Willard Marriott was born. Beginning with Hot Shoppe restaurants, then airline catering, and then motels, Marriott built his business into one of the largest, fastest growing, and most profitable hotel and restaurant businesses in the U.S.
1900 Maria Telkes was born. 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 powdered stove.
1900 Chicago completed the first modern sewage system in the U.S.
1900 The average U.S. farm is 147 acres.
1900 Work projects for farm youth organized; the name '4-H' adopted in 1913.
1900 Of gainfully employed persons, 38 percent were engaged in agriculture.
1900 First International Livestock Exposition in Chicago.
1900 The population of the U.S. is now 75,994,266. Farmers are 38% of the labor force. There are about 5,740,000 farms, averaging about 147 acres.
1901 In Switzerland, Suchard introduces its first milk chocolate brand 'Milka'
1901 Philip Danforth Armour, died. American industrialist who pioneered the use of refrigeration and meat canning. Armour & Co. became the largest meatpacker in the world and this helped Chicago become the meatpacking capital of the world. (The fact that Chicago is the 'Windy City' may have helped also).
1901 The 'Picayune Creole Cookbook' was published in New Orleans.
1901 Alfred Packer is released from prison. He served 18 years for cannibalism after being stranded in the Rocky Mountains. (Actually he was convicted of murder, since cannibalism was not against the law).
1901 Fred Harvey died in Leavenworth, Kansas. Born in 1835 in London, Frederick Henry Harvey, was an American restauranteur who operated a chain of restaurants called the 'Harvey House,' and a series of railroad dining cars and hotels. The restaurants were opened along the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and were staffed by "Harvey Girls", who over the years numbered in the thousands. Will Rogers said Harvey "kept the West in food and wives."
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner. Because of its large size, he mounted the machine on a horse carriage, with a long hose to reach inside a house, and offered cleaning services.
1901 The Martha Washington Hotel opens in New York City. It is the first hotel exclusively for women.
1901 Carl Barks was born. He worked for Disney Studios and illustrated Donald Duck comics.
1901 Conrad Arnold Elvehjem Born. American biochemist who identified nicotinic acid as a vitamin (one of the B vitamins), and that a deficiency resulted in the disease pellagra.
1901 New Zealand annexed the Cook Islands.
1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died. French artist who documented Parisian night life in the 1890s with his insightful posters.
1901 Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert died. An English chemist, he is the co-inventor (with John Bennet Lawes) of superphosphate fertilizer.
1902 National Biscuit Company changed the name of their Animal Biscuits to 'Barnum's Animals', and redesigned the package as a circus wagon with a string attached so it could be hung on Christmas trees. They sold for 5 cents.
1902 The Clementine was developed in Algeria by Father Clement Rodier, a French missionary. It is a hybrid of the tangerine and the Seville orange (bitter orange).
1902 The pastel-colored candy disks called NECCO wafers first appeared, named for the New England Confectionery Company.
1902 John Steinbeck was born. American novelist, some of his titles were: 'The Grapes of Wrath,' 'Tortilla Flats' and 'Cannery Row.'
1902 Tom Blake was born. The inventor of the modern surf board.
1902 Baron Philippe de Rothschild was born. (Wine producer).
1902 Julius Sterling Morton died. He was the founder of Arbor Day, first observed in Nebraska on April 10, 1872. Over one million trees were planted.
1902 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.
1902 Fannie Merrit Farmer opened Miss Farmer's School of Cookery in Boston, Massachusetts.
1902 Levi Strauss died. Inventor and manufacturer of jeans. He originally planned to make canvas tents for miners in the California gold rush, but soon found that durable pants sold better.
1902 Emile Zola died. French writer and critic who was also known as a gourmand. His detailed descriptions of simple meals, banquets and eating in his novels are among the best to be found anywhere. He was also known for his own luxury dinner parties. "What will be the death of me are bouillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities."
1902 Ray Kroc is born in Oak Park, Illinois. Ray Kroc sold blenders for milkshakes, and one of his customers was a restaurant in San Bernardino, California owned by Maurice and Richard McDonald. Kroc set up a chain of drive-in restaurants based on their efficient assembly line production kitchen. He opened his first restaurant on April 15, 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois. By 1961 he had 228 restaurants and he bought out the McDonald brothers. When he died in 1984 there were over 7,500 McDonald's restaurants.
1902 Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet died. A French botanist, he saved the vineyards of France from total destruction by the grape phylloxera, a small greenish-yellow insect which sucks the fluid from grapevines. He did so by grafting the French vines on American rootstock, which was resistant to phylloxera. He also developed the first widely used plant fungicide.
1903 First U.S. patent for instant coffee.
1903 Richard Hellmann, a New York deli owner created his recipe for bottled mayonnaise. He began to market it in 1912.
1903 Horace Fletcher published The ABC of Nutrition. In it he said that each mouthful of food should be chewed 32 times. He had no medical or scientific background.
1903 The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.
1903 Tsingtao, China's first brewery, was founded by German settlers. (Some sources say it was 1897).
1903 Richard Jordan Gatling died. Before inventing the Gatling Gun, he developed a machine for sowing rice, wheat, and other grains, and invented a steam plow.
1903 Lawrence Welk, champagne music-maker, was born.
1903 President Theodore Roosevelt established the first U.S. national bird sanctuary to protect pelicans and herons nesting on Pelican Island, near Sebastian, Florida.
1903 Gustavus Franklin Swift died.
1903 James Beard, culinary expert and cookbook author was born.
1903 The one year old Pepsi-Cola Co. registered the Pepsi-Cola trademark with the U.S. Patent Office.
1903 Louis Leakey was born. Anthropologist largely responsible for convincing scientists that Africa was the place to search for human origins, not Java or China. Together with his wife Mary, they made many significant fossil discoveries.
1903 Italo Marchiony patented an ice cream cup mold. Initially, he would fold warm waffles into a cup shape. He then developed the 2-piece mold that would make 10 cups at a time.
1903 Elisha Cook Jr. was born. A well known character actor in films and TV. I remember him most as Wilmer, in the film version of the 'Maltese Falcon'.
1903 Ruth Graves Wakefield was born. Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, at the Toll House Inn neart Whitman, Massachusetts in the 1930s.
1904 Date palm introduced to the U.S.
1904 Adelle Davis was born. Nutritionist, and author of 'Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit.' She promoted many theories that have been labeled as unfounded and dangerous by the medical community.
1904 'Pepper' Martin, baseball player was born.
1904 'Pigmeat' Markham was born. American actor, comedian. ("Here comes the Judge.").
1904 Richard Pough was born. An American ecologist he was the founding president of the Nature Conservancy and helped found the World Wildlife Fund. In 1945, he was one of the first to warn about the dangers of DDT to fish and birds.
1904 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis (St. Louis World's Fair). It was at the Fair that the ice cream cone was supposed to have been invented. The hot dog and iced tea were also popularized at the Fair.
1904 The Ice Cream cone was invented. Charles E. Minches invents the ice cream cone for his customers convenience at the St. Louis World's Fair (The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition). This is only one account, there are several other candidates.
1904 Lafcadio Hearn died. (Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Hearn). A writer, translator and teacher, her wrote 'La Cuisine Creole,' the first Creole cookbook.
1904 The first subway (underground) rail system in New York City began operating. The Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) line was 21 miles long.
1904 Clarence Nash was born. The original voice of Donald Duck.
1904 George J. French introduced French's mustard, the same year the hot dog was introduced to America at the St. Louis World's Fair.
1904 The tea bag was invented by Thomas Sullivan of New York City. He first used them to send samples to his customers instead of sending it in more expensive tins.
1904 Puffed Rice was introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair. Developed by Dr. Alexander P. Anderson of NYC, and first manufactured by American Cereal Co (which later became Quaker Oats Co.)
1904 Post Toasties were introduced by General Foods (originally called ‘Elijah's Manna.’)
1904 R. Blechyden served tea with ice at the St. Louis World's Fair and invented iced tea.
1904 The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. An ice cream vendor ran out of paper cups and asked a nearby waffle booth to make some thin waffles he could roll up to hold the ice cream.
1904 Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) was born. Writer and cartoonist. A few of his childrens books were 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,' 'Scrambled Eggs Super!' and 'The Butter Battle Book'
1905 The New York Times builds the Times Tower at Long Acre Square, has the name changed to Times Square and celebrated the event with a New Year's Eve Fireworks show. The beginning of an American tradition at Times Square.
1905 Actor Sterling Holloway was born. He was also the voice of Winnie The Pooh, the honey loving bear in Disney's animated version.
1905 Toots Shor, restaurateur was born.
1905 Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist was born.
1905 G. Lombardi's an Italian restaurant on Spring Street in New York City, served America’s first pizza.
1905 Popsicles were invented by Frank Epperson in 1905, they were originally called Epsicles!
1905 Thomas Adams Died. He manufactured the first commercially successful chewing gum, 'Black Jack.'
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