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Hector Boiardi
Yes, there is a Chef Boyardee, although his name is not spelled that way. Hector Boiardi, an Italian immigrant, came to the United States in 1914 when he was only 17.
Upon his arrival, he immediately got a job as a chef at New York's Plaza Hotel, where his brother worked as a waiter. After moving to Cleveland, he perfected his spaghetti and meatball recipe in 1929. His customers kept asking for bottles of his pasta sauce so they could have it at home, and he obliged. He then added cheeses and pasta to the sauce.
The results were so popular that he started to sell the products in area stores, and later in stores outside the area. Boiardi remained an advisor in the canned pasta business until his death at age 87 in 1985. And yes, that is Hector's picture on the label.
From the book The Name's Familiar by Laura Lee.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!.
The ice cream cone is introduced at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 by Syrian immigrant pastry-maker, Ernest A. Hamwi, who sells wafer-like zalabia pastry at a fairground concession, serving them with sugar and other sweets. When a neighboring ice cream stand runs out of dishes, Hamwi rolls some of his wafers into cornucopias, lets them cool, and then sells them to the ice cream concessionaire. But an ice cream cone mold patent (#746,971) was issued December 15, 1903, to Italian pushcart magnate, Italo Marchiony, who claims he has been making ice cream cones since 1896.
Source: The People’s Chronology, James Trager.
TV Chefs
Marcel Boulestin became the first television cook when he presented the first of the Cook’s Night Out programmes on BBC on January 21, 1937. Famed innovative television comic, Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) first TV appearance was in Philadelphia as the chef in a live, unrehearsed cooking show. 
The show was called ‘Deadline for Dinner’, and aired on Philadelphia’s WPTZ (NBC). The Food Network premiered in 1993.
Julia Child started her TV career on "The French Chef" at WGBH-Boston February 11, 1963. She was awarded two national Emmy's: in 1995 for her "Master Chefs" series and in 1997 for "Baking with Julia." In 1999, she received the Peabody Award from Public Television. With a dozen cookbooks to her credit, Julia passed away in 2004.
The White House Kitchen
In 1801 a cooking stove replaced the kitchen’s open-hearth fireplace for preparing meals. A large main kitchen and an everyday kitchen were built in 1902 with white tile, nickel plate, and gloss white painted wall and floor finishes that gleamed. The large kitchen used to prepare meals for state functions had four gas ovens and two hotel-size gas ranges. A Forty-quart Peerless Ice Cream Freezer, with a direct current motor and a twelve-foot long Imperial French Coal Range were added to the large kitchen in 1912.
In the mid-1930s the house's electrical system was rewired and both the large and small kitchens were remodeled to feature such modern conveniences as hotel-size electric ranges and ovens. The result was modern streamlined kitchens of stainless steel, immaculate and uncluttered; indirect lighting fell on cream-colored walls and on green and cream-colored linoleum with borders. The small kitchen was converted into a pantry, with refrigerators and warming ovens, serving both the kitchen and the State floor pantry, to which it was linked by electric dumbwaiters and a narrow, twisting stair.
Source: The White House Historical Association.
The Swedish Chef
It is sometimes said that The Swedish Chef character is based on real life Swedish chef Lars "Kuprik" Bäckman. He claims that his rather unsuccessful appearance on Good Morning America caught the attention of Jim Henson, who later bought the rights to the recording and created Lars Bäckman's Muppet alter ego. Bäckman's Dalecarlian accent would explain the chef's strange pronunciation. This story is however denied by Muppets writer Jerry Juhl.
The United States Postal Service released a souvenir sheet featuring Jim Henson and ten Muppets including the Swedish Chef in 2005.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Chef Tattoos
A gallery of Chef's Tattoos.
Source: The New York Times.
Significant Events In American Culinary Education
1896 The Boston Cooking School Cookbook is published by Fannie Farmer, who stressed the importance of accuracy in recipe measurements.
1929 The American Culinary Federation is founded.
1946 James Beard airs his first television cooking show, and later writes several cookbooks on American Cuisine. For more than three decades he owns and operates The James Beard Cooking School.
1946 The New Haven Restaurant Institute founded on Yale’s Campus. It is later renamed The Culinary Institute of America and is relocated to Hyde Park, New York.
1963 Julia Child airs The French Chef and demonstrates French cuisine to the American public and in the process brings publicity to the craft of being a chef.
1971 Madeleine Kamman’s Modern Gourmet Cooking School opensand inspires a generation of chefs
1973 Johnson And Wales opens.
1976 ACFEI Apprenticeship Program is instituted creating the first organized apprenticeship program in the US.
1977 The California Culinary Academy opens.
1980 New England Culinary Institute opens.
1984 The French Culinary Institute opens.
1986 ACFEI Accrediting Commission formed, five schools are accredited the first year.
1986 Pennsylvania Culinary opens.
1988 Shaw Guides publishes The Guide To Cooking Schools, the first comprehensive list of cooking programs worldwide.
1995 The Culinary Institute of America opens its West Coast campus in Saint Helena, California, offering a bachelor’s degree in culinary arts.
1995 Becoming A Chef is published, offering the first compendium of answers to some of the most common questions an aspiring chef can ask.
Source: The National Culinary Review
Sunday, March 21, 2010
