Introduction to Food Heritage Sites continues, page 3:

The Global Food Heritage Project's
mission is to identify and help preserve the following entities:

Page one:
Where Foods Began | Agricultural Technology | Farms | Ranches | Orchards, Groves & Plantations
Wineries & Breweries | Kitchens, Dining Halls & Cafeterias | Meat Industry | Seafood Industry

Page two:
Markets | Restaurants | Taverns, Pubs Cafes & Teahouses
Processing Sites | Baking | Famous Recipe Sites | Factories

This page:
Famous Foodies | Corporate Origins | Historic Events | Museums | Remembering Food Places Past

Places associated with Famous Food People

Escoffier Museum & Foundation
Birthplace of the famous chef and food service innovator

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Corporate Origins

H.J. Heinz House
Childhood home of the founder of H.J. Heinz Corporation
Moved from Sharpsburg, PA to Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI

"The Heinz House was the boyhood home of H.J. Heinz, located in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1869, Henry John Heinz, the son of German immigrants, began to produce and bottle horseradish in the basement of this house, the beginning of a world-famous food processing and packaging business.

By 1900, the H.J. Heinz Company was one of the largest packaged food companies in the world.

The Heinz House contains the desk that H.J. Heinz used, a gift from his mother, in the H.J. Heinz Company headquarters, between 1878 and 1890. Christmas 1890 the "lady" employees gave a desk chair as a gift to H.J. Heinz.

Today the building features H.J. Heinz artifacts exhibiting the brand name advertising pioneering efforts of H.J. Heinz in America. The exhibition includes 100’s of original labels, brochures, advertisements, buttons, and photography showing the progression of advertising."

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Events

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Museums 

These range from major institutions dedicated to food, such as France's Agropolis Museum,  Switzerland's Alimentarium and California's Copia: Art of Food and Wine to individual or corporate efforts at highlighting a single food, region or industry. Some examples include Museo dell'Olivo, Imperia, Italy, Musee de la Peche, Concarneau, France, and The American Diner Museum, Providence, Rhode Island. Closely akin to these museums are temporary food-themed expositions, exhibitions and festivals.

Remembering Food Places Past

Illiers-Combray, France: (top) packages of madeleines are still available from the original bakery where Marcel Proust's Aunt Leonie purchased them for her visiting nephew. Lower left: outside the bakery; lower right The House of Aunt Leonie now the Marcel Proust Museum.

“The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom , my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.”
--Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

A holy site for some, this is the place of the madeleine moment, the house visited by the young Marcel Proust in summers as a boy . He was six when he first came to stay with his paternal uncle and aunt, Jules and Elisabeth Amiot and by the time he was nine the visits ended---his family decided his asthma worsened here. We learned from the ticket taker who sits behind a huge table of Proustiana at the entry that Auntie never baked madeleines herself—she always bought them from the bakery around the corner, still there today. You can visit this charming house and garden or simply peek in through the gates and then trot up the street to buy madeleines.

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Most of us have memories of long-gone food places and people from our childhoods.
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Restaurants	Corporate Brands	Roadside Landmarks
Nostalgia	Mascots	Advertising
Festivals	Groceries & Supermarkets	Farmers Markets

--"The Blue Plate was a roadside joint I thought was way out in the country. When I was about six, that's where I had my first hamburger not made by my Mom---I loved standing at the little window as my Dad ordered the food, then waiting to hear our number called. My task was to pick up the napkins, straws and forks. The ketchup and mustard were not in tiny, impossible-to-open plastic rectangles. They were in big, messy jugs. Everybody ate at picnic tables under the trees and the burgers were hot,moist and dripping from the grill."

--"I remember the gigantic brownies served up at a shiny diner in her town. She loved them as much as the squeaky plastic red "leather" booths and the puffy hankies that sprouted from the waitresses pockets."

--"An unforgettable main street shop where I grew up was McClintock's Bakery. In my memory it was a magical glass and mirrored source of sugar-laced buttery pastries, layer cakes and fresh seasonal fruit pies. I was fascinated with the precision of the operation. All the cakes and Danish pastries were made on the premises. Customers took a number and waited. The no-nonsense sales women wore white dresses with lace hair nets. Layer cakes were carefully placed in tall set-up boxes, pies and pastries in flatter ones stacked on top. Each was tied shut using string that hung down over the counter from huge spools suspended from the ceiling. Donuts and cookies were bagged. Croissants were unheard of. Customers paid in cash, didn't linger to chit-chat and departed with a stack of white boxes and pastry bags."

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