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George Speck (also known as George Crum; [1] July 15, 1824 – July 22, 1914) was an American chef. Speck was born in Saratoga County, New York. He was a member of the Mohawk people. He worked as a hunter, guide and cook in the Adirondack Mountains, becoming noted for his culinary skills after being hired at Moon's Lake House near Saratoga ...
George Francis Crum (26 October 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA – 8 September 2007 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) was the first conductor of the National Ballet of Canada and an accomplished pianist, vocal coach, and musical arranger.
George Henry Crumb Jr. was born in Charleston, West Virginia on 24 October 1929 to a musical family and he grew up playing chamber music with them. [10] [11] Both of Crumb's parents played in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO); [n 1] his father George Henry Crumb Sr. was a clarinetist while his mother Vivian (née Reed) was a cellist. [12]
George "Crum" Speck, a chef and restaurant owner, is said to have created the potato chip by accident during the summer of 1853. However, his sister, Kate, claimed she actually created the chip ...
[3]: p.95 Initially Catherine "Aunt Kate" Weeks and her brother George Crum shared the cooking duties. Crum later left to start his own restaurant in Malta at the south end of the lake. The Lake House burned in 1893, but was rebuilt. There are conflicting reports, but apparently Moon continued to operate it until his death in 1895.
Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), is a work for electric flute, electric cello and amplified piano by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb. It was composed for performance by the New York Camerata in 1971.
By the late nineteenth century, a popular version of the story attributed the dish to George Crum, a cook [10] [11] at Moon's Lake House who was trying to appease an unhappy customer on August 24, 1853. [12] The customer kept sending back his French-fried potatoes, complaining that they were too thick, [13] too "soggy", or not salted enough ...
Black Angels, subtitled "Thirteen Images from the Dark Land", is a work for "electric string quartet" by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb.It was composed over the course of a year and is dated "Friday the Thirteenth, March 1970 (in tempore belli)" as written on the score. [1]