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Food and Technology

Food and Technology. Team Team Sara Song Allen Song Joe Stillinger Tas. Ruth Wakefield. From her “Toll House” Lodge where she was baking chocolate cookies, she ran out of Baker’s chocolate. Where instead she used Nestle Chocolate chips.

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Food and Technology

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  1. Food and Technology • Team Team Sara Song Allen Song Joe Stillinger Tas Song, Allen J

  2. Ruth Wakefield • From her “Toll House” Lodge where she was baking chocolate cookies, she ran out of Baker’s chocolate. Where instead she used Nestle Chocolate chips. • It became so famous locally that Nestle and Wakefield agreed on printing the Toll House Cookie recipe on its packaging. • Wakefield was given a life-time supply of chocolate chips for her accidental findings. Song, Allen J

  3. Rose Totino • Started her frozen pizza idea ten years after she and her husband started their pizzeria. • In 1979, Totino patented the Frozen pizza dough. • In 1981, Totino sold Totino’s pizza to Pillsbury for $20 million, and eventually became Pillsbury’s first female Vice President. • Totino passed away in 1994. Song, Allen J

  4. Laura Scudder • Also known as “The Potato Chip Queen”. • Potato Chips were originally packaged in tin or wooden barrels. • In 1926 she came upon the idea of packaging potato chips in small sealable bags. These bags helped retain their crispness longer. • Scudder built an empire around packaged potato chips in Monterey, CA. Song, Allen J

  5. Carmen Rocha • Inventor of the “Nachos”. • Rocha first served this dish at El Cholo in Los Angeles while she was working as a waitress. • Learned it in San Antonio, she made Nachos for her guests. Layering the tortilla chips with cheese and jalapenos. Eventually gaining popularity and was added to the menu. Song, Allen J

  6. Sybylla Masters • Sybilla Masters was born in New Jersey and died in 1720 • American colonist and inventor • Masters invented a way for cleaning and curing the Indian corn crops that the colonist in early America received as a gift from the native peoples • SybillaMasters's innovation allowed the corn to be processed into many different food and cloth products.

  7. Sybylla Masters • The patent was issued in her husband Thomas’ name by the British courts in 1715. • That was the unfair law at the time, women and minorities had no rights to own patents.

  8. Madeline M. Turner of Oakland, California • Madeline M. Turner • A fruit press is a mechanism that is used to separate the juice from the fruit.

  9. Amanda Theodosia Jones • Amanda Jones re-invented American food production by inventing vacuum packed canning. • Amanda Jones was born in East Bloomfied, New York, on October 19, 1835.

  10. Other Women Inventors

  11. Catherine Deiner • Catherine Deiner in1891 invented the rolling pin

  12. Mary Anderson • Prior to the manufacture of Henry Ford’s Model A, Mary Anderson was granted her first patent for a window cleaning device in November of 1903 • Her invention could clean snow, rain, or sleet from a windshield by using a handle inside the car.

  13. What is Food Politics? • Food politics are the politics are the political aspects of the production, control, regulation, inspection and distribution of food. Song, Sara

  14. What is Food Politics? • The politics can be affected by the ethical, cultural, technology and environmental disputes concerning proper farming, agricultural and retailing methods and regulations. Song, Sara

  15. Culture and Ethics • Food Politics in culture are affiliated with food preparation, tradition and demographics. • Due to culture indifference, concerns regarding food risk and safety regulations vary. Song, Sara

  16. Culture and Ethics • some food prep practices are acceptable in certain societies (ie Fast food processing)   • animal domestication (pigs, cows, chicken)   • animal cruelty   Song, Sara

  17. Food Politics: Environment Aspects of environment that affect food politics include: • Land the food is grown on • Emission of toxins • Ammonia and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane • Pollution • Tobacco

  18. Food Politics: Technology and Science • Technology that enhances the production of food. • Factory farming • raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density • Increases the risk of food borne illnesses • Genetically modified food • Proper handling of animals

  19. How much did Rose Totino make when she sold her business to Pillsbury? What did Madeline M. Turner’s invention exactly do? Name the African American woman who invented the “Fruit Press” What is factory farming? What is Ethics? Song, Allen J

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