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Another obituary states, "Crum is said to have been the actual inventor of "Saratoga chips."" [16] When Catherine Wicks died in 1924, however, her obituary authoritatively identified her as follows: "A sister of George Crum, Mrs. Catherine Wicks, died at the age of 102 and was the cook at Moon's Lake House. She first invented and fried the ...
1. Potato Chips. Who: George Crum, New York chef When: 1853 How it was created: When an annoying customer kept sending his plate of French fried potatoes back to the kitchen, claiming they were ...
[3]: p.95 Initially Catherine "Aunt Kate" Weeks and her brother George Crum shared the cooking duties. Crum later left to start his own restaurant in Malta at the south end of the lake. The Lake House burned in 1893, but was rebuilt. There are conflicting reports, but apparently Moon continued to operate it until his death in 1895.
By the late nineteenth century, a popular version of the story attributed the dish to George Crum, a cook [10] [11] at Moon's Lake House who was trying to appease an unhappy customer on August 24, 1853. [12] The customer kept sending back his French-fried potatoes, complaining that they were too thick, [13] too "soggy", or not salted enough ...
Eugene Crum (1953–2013), American sheriff; Frank Crum (born 2000), American football player; George Crum (born George Speck; ca. 1828–1914), credited by many to be the inventor of potato chips; Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing (born Crum) (1802–1887), Scottish politician; Jake Crum (born 1991), American racing driver; Johnny Crum (1912–1969 ...
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