Tabasco, founded in Avery Island, Louisiana, in 1868, is one of the world's most popular hot sauces. It was conceived by an Irish-American banker amid privation that followed the Civil War.
John Froelich, the oldest son of German immigrants, was born in Iowa in 1849. The grain mill operator tinkered away on a gasoline traction, the tractor, that changed global agriculture.
'Big Brother' financial regulations invade the privacy of business owners. I went to Congress to get them to help protect the more than 33 million small businesses in the US.
Modelo Especial, brewed in Mexico, is the top-selling beer in the United States following years of growth and in the wake of the Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney disaster.
Walter Diemer, a 23-year-old accountant for Fleer Co. of Philadelphia, invented bubble gum in 1928. The secret formula had defied the best food scientists for decades.
Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, created the invention by which all others are judged β sliced bread β in 1928. His innovation quickly changed consumer culture.