Today I Found Out

Today I Found Out

The Truth About the Origin of the Potato Chip (2017x83)


Air date: Apr 07, 2017

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/egt230aclmo →Subscribe for new videos →’s Lake House, owned by Cary Moon, was one of the finest of those restaurants. Vacationers and wealthy summer home owners visited the restaurant often. At the restaurant, two people shared the cooking responsibilities, Catherine “Aunt Kate” Weeks and her brother (or brother-in-law, depending on who’s telling the story), George Crum. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/09/real-story-potato-chip/ Sources: http://www.saratoga.com/news/saratoga-chips.cfm http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/Potato.htm http://www.jstmoon.com/histories/Moon's%20Restaurant%20NY.pdf http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1499968?uid=3739560&uid=2134&uid=2483512557&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=2483512547&uid=3739256&uid=60&purchase-type=both&accessType=none&sid=21104602199797&showMyJstorPss=false&seq=1&showAccess=false http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crum http://www.sfa.org/sfa/news.php?id=60 http://chipscrumsandspecksofsaratogacountyhistory.com/tag/cary-moon/ http://books.google.com/books?id=QYoXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cook%E2%80%99s+Oracle;+Containing+Receipts+for+Plain+Cookery,+on+the+Most+Economical+Plan+for+Private+Families:+Also+the+Art+of+Composing+the+Most+Simple+and+Most+Highly+Finished+Broths,+Gravies,+Soups,+Sauces,+Store+Sauces,+and+Flavouring+Essences;+the+Quantity+of+each+Article+is+Accurately+Stated+by+Weight+and+Measure;+the+Whole+Being+the+Result+of+Actual+Experiments+Instituted+in+the+Kitchen+of+a+Physician&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GnQOVMD9J4qvogTivILYDQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=potato&f=false http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Scudder Image Credit: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-125639318/stock-photo-saratoga-springs-road-sign-on-a-blue-sky-background https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-84631439/stock-photo-proof-word-stamped-on-a-yellow-envelope-containing-documents-as-evidence-or-testimony-in-a

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