Potato Chips
National Potato Day
Did you know that Americans eat an average of 110 pounds of potatoes a year per person? It’s the number one vegetable consumed in the United States. But spuds weren’t always the on top of the vegetable heap. When the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizzaro brought potatoes back from Peru in 1532, Europeans were…
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Since March is Women’s History Month and today is National Potato Chip Day, I want to tell you about the amazing businesswoman and entrepreneur, Laura Scudder (1881-1959). Scudder started her potato chip company in 1926 because her husband couldn’t work anymore after a car he was repairing, fell on him. It was up to…
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