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Returning to the U.S., Tillie settled on Stockton, California to grow the tomatoes. After persuading farmers in the area to experiment raising the tomatoes, she convinced Pacific Can Company to build a plant at Stockton with an option for her to buy it. [4] By 1940, she had made San Joaquin County the top tomato-producing county in the United ...
Contadina's products include tomato paste, tomato purée, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, pizza sauce, as well as a few other products. In the early 1990s, Contadina also sold a "fresh" refrigerated bake-at-home pizza kit in grocery stores, though it received faint praise as "better than frozen", but not as good ...
A plate of pre-packaged Kraft macaroni and cheese, served with tomato and sausage. The earliest known iteration of boxed macaroni and cheese came from a salesman in St. Louis, Missouri named Grant Leslie. [26] Leslie used rubber bands to attach processed cheese produced by Kraft Foods to boxes of pasta in an attempt to increase pasta sales. [27]
The resultant company was "The Uddo and Taormina Corporation" and they created the Progresso label, [1] [2] specializing in canned Italian food products, which became mostly soup, olive oil, tomatoes, spaghetti, ravioli and beans, sold since 1949. In 1979, Ogden Corporation bought Progresso for $35 million. [3]
The tomato field: a sight to behold. On farmer Frank Muller’s tomato field on the outskirts of Esparto, the landscape’s vast openness dims any sound of trucks or cars passing in the distance ...
The California hide trade was a trading system of various products based in cities along the California coastline, operating from the early 1820s to the mid-1840s. In exchange for hides and tallow from cattle owned by California ranchers, [ 1 ] sailors from around the globe, often representing corporations, swapped finished goods of all kinds.
California could require all new gas stoves sold in the state to carry a label warning users about pollutants they can release that have been linked to respiratory illnesses. The state Assembly ...
The tragic case of a college student who died after eating leftover spaghetti is making headlines again after a doctor called attention to the incident on his popular YouTube channel.. In a video ...