Knowledge in a Nutshell on Popular Products : Heinz Edition

Knowledge in a Nutshell on Popular Products Heinz Edition looks inside one of the world's most famous companies and tells the amazing story of its founder and development along with the many surprising food facts about Charlie the Tuna, Morris the 9-Lives Cat, how vinegar can help you with household chores and what honeybees and pickles have in common.

Find out Why Henry Heinz chose "57 Varieties" for its slogan when they had more than 57 at the time...What popular food product was used as a medicine by Hippocrates in 400 B.C...How Henry Heinz literally "sank" his competition...You put ketchup on hot dogs-but why are they called hot dogs...Why accountants are called "bean counters."

Over 500 amazing, astounding, fun facts-things you never knew about popular products. Another in the Knowledge in a Nutshell(tm) series of books that is a treasure chest for trivia buffs.

This book also includes internationally recipes with conversion charts.

Charles Reichblum is president of Century Features, a news service that syndicates fascinating facts and anecdotes to advertisers in newspapers around the world. Some advertisers have been running the features week-in and week-out for over 38 years. His fascination with facts and the odd twists began in the 1940s when he was a "gofer" at a radio station. Later he worked as news and sports director as well as a play-by-play announcer on radio stations in Pittsburgh and Upstate New York.

The Knowledge in a Nutshell series grew out of his collection of the unique, odd, and fascinating information he has been collecting for his clients and his friends over the years.