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You probably have never heard her name, but Nancy Green has likely been in your kitchen before. Green created the Aunt Jemima recipe, and with it, the birth of the American pancake.
Already the largest flour milling concern in Missouri when they purchased the pancake mix, it grew to an international conglomerate and altered trademark infringement laws in the United States. Here is the history of Aunt Jemima as a corporation and symbol in American culture.
She is buried in the city’s Oak Woods Cemetery. The world knew her as "Aunt Jemima," but her given name was Nancy Green. The famous Aunt Jemima recipe was not her recipe, but she became the advertising world's first living trademark.
Aunt Jemima was an American breakfast brand for pancake mix, table syrup, and other breakfast food products. The original version of the pancake mix was developed in 1888–1889 by the Pearl Milling Company and was advertised as the first "ready-mix" cooking product. [1] [2]
Aunt Jemima portrays the white, romanticized notion of an Antebellum “mammy,” detached from the cruel reality of enslavement during the late 19th century. The inspiration for the character came...
Aunt Jemima. Uncle Ben's. Cream of Wheat. Mrs. Butterworth. The images associated with those brands not only sold syrup, rice and cereal but perpetuated painful stereotypes that...
According to the Aunt Jemima website, Aunt Jemima was first "brought to life" by Nancy Green, a woman they ID as a "storyteller, cook, and missionary worker" and who was hired to promote...
Quaker Oats announced this week that it will be retiring Aunt Jemima, the caricature of black cooks that has been used to market pancake mix and syrup for 131 years. Based in blackface minstrel...
The archetype also became a theme-based restaurant called Aunt Jemima Pancake House in Disneyland between 1955 and 1970, where a “live Aunt Jemima” (played by Aylene Lewis) greeted customers.
Occupation (s) Nanny, cook, model. Known for. Aunt Jemima. Nancy Green (March 4, 1834 – August 30, 1923) was an American former slave, who, as "Aunt Jemima", was one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark. The Aunt Jemima recipe was not her recipe, but she became the advertising world's first living trademark.