Modern Times: The 16th Century

As many as 338 workers slaved to make the perfect and most delicious bagels of all time, all by hand. This act set the basis for what we know bagels to be today. Number Eleven: The Little Ones As it has done to many of our modern food options, America has significantly raised the standard for bagel portion sizes. The bagel form from the early 1900s was thinner and smaller, making them less fluffy and chewier. Because of this size, they went stale increasingly fast.

He went from selling taffies out of a street cart, to owning the prestigious Hershey Chocolate Company. After finding a way to use fresh milk for his candy, Hershey expanded his company and still met the high demands of the American public. Even though chocolate used to be a luxury only wealthy people could enjoy, Hershey made inexpensive candy so that everyone could purchase one of his chocolate bars (“Milton Hershey,” 1999) . Later on, in 1907, he revolutionized the candy world by inventing the Hershey Kiss. During WWII, Milton Hershey innovated and experimented to make the Field Ration D Bar.

Background of Kellogg’s Founded in 1906 by W.K. Kellogg as the “Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company”, where the Irish families favourite Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were created. In 1915 Kellogg’s were the first cereal company to introduce a high fibre cereal into the market this was of course Kellogg’s Bran Flakes, Creating All Bran the following year. Kellogg’s first arrived in Ireland in 1922 and their products were sold in supermarkets across the country. The following year they became the first company in the food industry to hire a dietician.

By bringing wheat over to the New World, it had flourished under the ecology of North and South of America. With this, it became the fundamental food crop for millions of people in the Americas. By the 20th Century, it was feeding millions of people out of America. Today, foods like bread, pasta and cakes are a few common

Annotated Bibliography - National Summary: This site talks about why Target is switching from packaged to fresh foods. Target is reducing their pre-packaged foods such as sugary cereals to more fresh foods, including fruits and vegetables. Target says that they will be advertising more healthy and more expensive foods. I believe the change is going to benefit the consumers and the store. Evaluation of Credibility: I think this is a reliable source because it is one of the world’s largest newspapers with over 400,000 readers daily.

The new settlers were dependent on the natural resources and adapted to using cornmeal for daily nutrition. Cornmeal is a cheap substance and has a long shelf life, which made it easy for people to store during the winter months (The American Indian Heritage Foundation, 2016). As cornmeal became more popular the recipes began to change some regions grew blue corn, others grow yellow, this lead to the cornmeal tasting different. In some regions, people added honey or molasses to the cornmeal to give it a sweeter taste. In other regions, people added lard or bacon fat to give the cornmeal flavor (Native Net,

When food trucks were first established in the late 19th century, they sold simple foods such as sandwiches. In the 21st century, these businesses have become much more sophisticated. Some specialize in a certain cuisine, such as Korean or Portuguese, while others focus on cupcakes (Engber). Because of the relevance of food trucks in today’s society, it is worthwhile to understand their history, how to start one, the different types, and how they are helping to feed the hungry.

Meanwhile, the Dutch had introduced corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes to Japan. In the sixteenth-century, Japanese began to adapt to foods that were introduced by the Portuguese which followed by the Dutch later and the foods later became cultural symbols of Japan (Stajcic, 2013). For example, fried foods such as tempura are different from the usual Japanese food where it excluded meat and dairy products in their cooking but involve the usage of oil in food preparation. However, tempura was unexpectedly well accepted by Japanese people at that time and has evolved into what it is today. At late twentieth century, most of the Western foods, such as bread, coffee and ice cream had become famous in Japan (Food in Every Country, n.d.).

Destinee Murph Chef Price Intermediate Baking(BKNG2000) 04 May 2016 Brownies What was the first batch of brownies that you ever had, was it made of a box that was picked up in a supermarket or was it a batch of brownies that grandma made to go with Sunday. Brownie is a flat, baked square or bar. It as a texture between cake and cookie and can be hard or more like fudge depending on the type of recipe that you decide to use. It is said that brownies get the name that they have from the cookie like dessert itself. Many people think that brownies are from American origin.

So soon after the growing and farming of sugar became an easy task for humans, people like John Pemberton, the creator of the sugar filled drink Coca Cola™, discovered ways to make sugar into much more of a developed food such as candy, which can be traced back almost as far as 2,000 BC to the era of Ancient Egypt (Candy History). In addition to food, sugar was also used as an ingredient within drinks. Sugar was also used as an essential ingredient for much more filling foods than candy such as sugar cookies, which can be traced back to the 1700s in Pennsylvania. The candy and sugar cookies and the sucrose it contains, were eventually used for religious purposes such as egyptian candy being used to worship their gods and goddesses, and sugar cookies being left out for Santa Claus for the Christian holiday of Christmas (Candy History). Sugar not only revolutionized eating and drinking, but also helped start and spark inspiration towards religious services and traditions.