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Cincinnati candy : a sweet history /

Title
Cincinnati candy : a sweet history / Dann Woellert.
Author
Woellert, Dann,
Publication
Charleston, SC : American Palate, 2017.

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Description
191 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"For more than a century, Cincinnati's candy industry satisfied our national sweet tooth. Stick and drop candies appeared here long before their Civil War popularity. Opera creams, rich fondant-filled chocolate candy brought here by Robert Hiner Putman, provided decadence. Candy corn, which the Goelitz Company introduced to the United States before World War I, remains a ubiquitous treat. Marpro Products created and popularized the marshmallow cone candy. Doscher invented the French chew and made caramel corn a baseball concession at Redland Field decades before Cracker Jack became synonymous with our national pastime. The city's many Greek and Macedonian immigrants influenced the unique Queen City tradition of finishing a Cincinnati-style 'threeway' of spaghetti, chili and cheddar with a chocolate mint. Local food etymologist Dann Woellert tells these stories and more in this delectably sweet history"--Back cover.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index.
Contents
Cincinnati Candytown -- The early Cincinnati candy barons -- The formation of the National Confectioners Association -- The Doscher Candy Company : Cincinnati's oldest confectionery -- Mullane's : made with loving care for more than 140 years -- Prominent Cincinnati chocolate companies -- The Goelitz Company and the birth of candy corn -- Between acts : the Cincinnati opera cream story -- Solving the national crisis : "chronic halitosis" -- Cincinnati's role in Sweetest Day -- Roscoe E. Rodda : the inventor of the Peep and his time in Cincinnati -- A peppermint patty and a threeway : Cincinnati Greeks in the candy industry -- Ninety years of black licorice in Cincinnati -- Greater Cincinnati candy today.
ISBN
  • 9781467137959
  • 1467137952
LCCN
2017948448
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library