FOOD HISTORY: Cheese Doodles

After World War II, Morry Yohai took over the Old London Foods business.The company, founded by Yohai's father in the 1920's as King Kone, made ice cream cones, melba toast, cheese crackers and caramel popcorn. In the 1950's, Yohai and his partners, working at the company's Old Melba Toast factory building in the Bronx, NY, were looking for a new product. They found a machine that extruded corn meal that "popped" almost  like popcorn. Yohai decided to cut the cornmeal product into child-like pieces, to coat them with cheddar cheese and bake them, rather than fry them, to make this new food product  more healthy. Because the popped cornmeal tubes, which in those days were very thin, looked to Yohai and his parthers like "doodles", the new snack food was christened "Cheese Doodles". The rest, as is said, is history!

COOKING TIP: Defatting Soups/Sauces

To defat soups or sauces, put several slotted spoons into the freezer. Use frozen spoons to skim the tops of your soups/sauces. Soup or sauce will slip through the holes in the spoon while the fat will adhere to the frozen metal of the spoon. Change spoons, as needed.

FOOD TRIVIA: Cola Products

Today, Coca Cola and PepsiCo products are sold in every country in the world except North Korea.