Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Nabisco (/ n ə ˈ b ɪ s k oʊ /, abbreviated from the earlier name National Biscuit Company) is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey. The company is a subsidiary of Illinois -based Mondelēz International .
Ruth Graves Wakefield. Ruth Jones Graves Wakefield ( née Graves; June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was an American chef, best known for her innovations in the baking field. Ruth pioneered the first chocolate chip cookie recipe, an invention many people incorrectly assume was a mistake. [1] Her new dessert, supposedly conceived of as she ...
William Mellis Christie. William Mellis Christie (5 January 1829 – 14 June 1900) is the namesake for the Canadian Mr. Christie brand of cookies and biscuits, owned by Nabisco . Christie was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the only child of John Christie and Jane Grant. He apprenticed as a baker before arriving in Canada in 1848.
Adolphus Williamson Green (January 14, 1843 – March 8, 1917) was an American attorney and businessman. He was the co-founder of the National Biscuit Company (now known as Nabisco, owned by Mondelēz International) in 1898. A year later, in 1899, he was the first person to sell packaged biscuits. He served as the President of the National ...
Sam Porcello. Samuel J. Porcello (May 23, 1935 [1] – May 12, 2012) was an American food scientist who worked at Nabisco for 34 years. [2] He is particularly noted for his work on the modern Oreo cookie. Porcello held five patents directly related to the Oreo. [2] In particular, Porcello was the inventor of the white Oreo cookie creme-filling. [2]
Jacob Loose was born in Greencastle, Indiana on June 17, 1850. He attended high school in Decatur, Illinois, but dropped out at the age of 16. At the age of 20, he moved to Kansas, where he opened a dry goods store with his brother in Chetopa. [1] [2]
Wally Amos, founder. Wallace "Wally" Amos was born in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, on July 1, 1936. In 1948 he moved to New York City to live with his aunt [2] where they often baked cookies together. [3] As an adult, Amos, an Air Force veteran who worked as a talent agent with the William Morris Agency, would send his home-baked ...
Oreo (/ ˈ ɔːr i oʊ /; stylized in all caps) is a brand of sandwich cookie consisting of two cocoa biscuits or cookie pieces with a sweet fondant filling. It was introduced by Nabisco on March 6, 1912, and through a series of corporate acquisitions, mergers, and splits, both Nabisco and the Oreo brand have been owned by Mondelez International since 2012.