biography
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| (1886–1956)
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| biography:
| Inventor and businessman, born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was interested in taxidermy as a child, and he took a cooking course in high school. After briefly attending Amherst College, he worked as a field naturalist for the Biological Service of the US Department of Agriculture (1910–12) before going to Labrador, where he engaged in the fur trade (1912–17). Observing how well the natives preserved fish and other foods by freezing them, he experimented with the quick-freezing of foods in the harsh winters there. Back in Gloucester, MA he perfected his quick-freezing and packaging process in the 1920s, and established a frozen-food firm, the General Foods Company (1927). It was not until the 1940s that the name Birds Eye became a household word. |
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