The Petrified Bagel
Affectionately this little gem of an artifact is known around the museum collections offices as “The Petrified Bagel.” It is one of the few food items we have in the ...
food history
What We Found
The Beatrice Starch Manufacturing Company
The NSHS Archives holds a small collection relating to the Beatrice Starch Manufacturing Company of Beatrice, Nebraska. The collection consists of a minute book which ...
The Fairmont Creamery Company
The Fairmont Creamery Company was incorporated March 29, 1884, in Fairmont, Fillmore County, Nebraska.
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Happy Days
There is just something about old drive-ins that brings out the nostalgia in people. In Lincoln, Ken Eddy’s was a legend. In 1952, Ken Lydic and Eddy Gold opened ...
Canning the Way to Victory
Housewives were urged to “can Vegetables Fruit & the Kaiser too” in this 1919 publication by the National War Garden Commission.
During American participation in ...
Rhubarb, the Pie Lover’s Delight
Rhubarb, a plant well known to pie and dessert lovers in Nebraska, has a long history in this state. Its use as a substitute for fruit in a newly settled country where ...
Fairmont Foods Company
Fairmont Foods Omaha plant fleet, 1920 (RG4218.PH3-69)
Fairmont Foods began as the Fairmont Creamery in Fairmont, Nebraska, in 1884. The creamery was a pioneer in ...
Still-Tasty Bagel Makes Perilous Journey
Members of the Heinrich family of Sutton, Nebraska, are said to have brought these bagels with them on their ocean voyage from Germany to the United States in the 1870s. ...
Pan of Fudge
Six girls and their bemused-looking chaperone pose in a pennant-bedecked room, possibly at York College (York, Nebraska) in about 1910.
Many food historians trace the ...
Was the McRib invented in Nebraska?
Rumor has it that McDonalds' McRib® Sandwich was invented in Nebraska. That rumor is not exactly true.
In 1972 Professor Roger Mandingo of the University of Nebraska ...
Was the Reuben Sandwich invented in Omaha?
According to Omaha lore, the Reuben Sandwich was dreamed up at Omaha's Blackstone Hotel in 1925 by Reuben Kulakofsky, a local grocer, to feed a group of late-night poker ...
How a Nebraska company changed Americans’ eating habits
Gerry Thomas, University of Nebraska alumnus and salesman for Omaha-based C. A. Swanson and Sons has been credited with inventing the TV Dinner in 1954. The concept ...
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