When Ruth Wakefield of Toll House Inn ran out of baked chocolate on 1930, she broke a piece of semi-sweet chocolate and added it to her dough. After being taken out of the oven, the biscuits were not evenly filled with melted chocolate, but were covered with small pieces. The signature dessert made her hotel in Whitman, Massachusetts stand out on the food map.

Fried potato chips

fried chips

Back to 1853, a customer of Moon Lake Villa in Saratoga Hot Springs has a chip on his shoulder. He returned fried potatoes in batches, claiming that they did not meet his chewing standards. Fed up with it, george crumb, the chef, sliced the last batch as thin as possible, sizzled in hot grease and put some salt on it. At that time, more cheerful customers declared that these crispy potatoes were very popular, and they soon swept the whole area.

beer

beer

About 10000 years ago, Mesopotamia gave up their nomadic way and became the first agricultural society in the world. The stored bread grains became wet and began to ferment naturally. Some brave people dared to drink this foamy drink, thus drinking up the first bottle of beer in the world.

Raisin tonic wine

raisin cordial

As early as BC 1490, Egyptian works mentioned that raisins were used as food, medicine, sports prizes, temple decorations and taxes. Evidence shows that the grapes that have not been harvested are found to be dried on vines and determined to be sweet and delicious.

tofu

tofu

Although it is impossible to determine the specific details, a popular origin story holds that in ancient China, cooked and ground soybeans were accidentally mixed with impure sea salt containing calcium and magnesium salts, which led to the gelation of the slurry. Another legend is that a different China chef mistakenly put nigari, a natural coagulant, into a can of soybean milk, which produced an amazing edible curd.

Ceclean cone ice cream crispy bucket

During the World Expo in St. Louis on 1904, Ernest Hamwi, a Syrian pastry vendor, helped an ice cream vendor nearby. His plate was not enough. He rolled the cake into a cone so that the ice cream could be scooped in. It was a success, but Italian immigrant Italo Marchiony also came to this group and obtained a patent for an ice cream cone earlier this year.