![]() ![]() It's set in the USA in the 1850s, and George Crum is partly African American. I actually found the story kind of refreshing. and the potato chip as we know it was born! George Crum was a real cook who, in the 1850s, helped popularize potato chips as a snack after a persnickety customer kept sending back his potato wedges because they were too thick. This book is actually a bit of a historical biographical sketch. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via netgalley. It could be an introduction to inventions/inventors, used to discuss not giving up, even as a discussion about healthy foods, where various food comes from and how to prepare different food. This book could be used in many ways with children. The back of the book has a short biography of the real George Crum. He finally got what he wanted, Potato Chips! This is a cute story with wonderful illustrations. Crum cooked him potatoes and he sent them back because the slices were too thick. Everyone loved his food, that is until Filbert P. Crum was a wonderful cook who was known far and wide as a wonderful cook. This story is a fun fictional story based on George Crum. Crum was a real man who came up with this food item. Have you ever wondered where the Potato chip came from? Mr. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and this story is another example. She hopes her books educate, entertain and inspire children. It’s also because she can’t dance well and she can’t sing well, so she tries her best at writing well. She tells them it is because she likes to do creative things and she finds writing to be a very creative exercise. ![]() Anne's readers often ask her why she writes books. ![]() Anne is also a regular contributor to children’s magazines, such as Highlights, Pockets, Cricket, Odyssey, Faces, Clubhouse and Shine. Her work has been nominated for several awards, including the Silver Birch Award, the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award, the Red Cedar Book Award, the Red Maple Award and the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature. Anne is the author of several picture books, as well as historical non-fiction books for children, including, A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival, Island of Hope and Sorrow: The Story of Grosse Île, Pier 21: Stories from Near and Far, and Into the Mist: The Story of the Empress of Ireland. She received her Bachelor of Translation from Concordia University in Montreal. This book is an excellent choice for lessons on inventions and inventors, history, or why we eat the foods we do.Īnne Renaud is a life-long Quebecker. They work beautifully with Renaud's playful language and quirky characters for a lively and deliciously fun read-aloud. Felicita Sala's gorgeous illustrations accurately portray the historical period but with a lighthearted touch. Included at the back of the book is a historical note with a list of sources describing the legend and the remarkable and inspiring story of Crum, a trapper of mixed Native American and African American descent, who supplied restaurants with fresh game, then became a chef and successful restauranteur himself. This fictional picture book tale by Anne Renaud is based on a real man named George Crum, a cook in Saratoga Springs, New York, in the 1850s, who is purported to have created the first potato chip in response to a demanding customer. Because, quite by accident, George Crum has invented potato chips! At last, Filbert is satisfied, proclaiming, 'Perfection!' Which they are. Feeling a bit mischievous, George decides to use his sharpest knife to cut paper-thin potato slices, which he fries until they are crackling and then showers with salt. But his picky customer sends them back again. Horsefeathers walks into George Crum's restaurant, he tells the waitress, 'I have a hankering for a heaping helping of potatoes.' Fine cook that he is, George prepares a serving of his most scrumptious, succulent and sublime potato wedges, only to have Filbert send them back. ![]()
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