Cincinnati Candy: A Sweet History
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- Synopsis
- For more than a century, Cincinnati’s candy industry satisfied our national sweet tooth. Stick and drop candies appeared here long before their Civil War popularity. Opera creams, rich fondant-filled chocolate candy brought here by Robert Hiner Putman, provided decadence. Candy corn, which the Goelitz Company introduced to the United States before World War I, remains a ubiquitous treat. Marpro Products created and popularized the marshmallow cone candy. Doscher invented the French Chew and made caramel corn a baseball concession at Redland Field decades before Cracker Jack became synonymous with our national pastime. The city’s many Greek and Macedonian immigrants influenced the unique Queen City tradition of finishing a Cincinnati-style “threeway” of spaghetti, chili and cheddar with a chocolate mint. Local food etymologist Dann Woellert tells these stories and more in this delectably sweet history.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781439663615
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781467137959
- Publisher:
- Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 02/08/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Dann Woellert
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance, Technology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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