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Article: Tradition? The green bean casserole is now a must for Thanksgiving
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 20, 2000
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Not all Thanksgiving food traditions started with Pilgrims.
The year 1955 marked the birth of one of the biggest current
traditions. That's the year the green bean casserole was born. I know
this because Jeff Bedard, the Campbell's Soup Guy in Charge of
Queries Like This, told me it was. I, along with other naive
Americans, readily assumed that Al Gore, as a child, invented it in
his Easy-Bake Oven before he went on to invent other (but not nearly
as important or tasty) things.
Bedard assured me this was not the case. It was invented by Dorcas
"Grandmother of the Green Bean Casserole" Reilly, the manager of
Campbell's test kitchens from 1949 until 1961. It originally was
called mushroom ...