11 November: John T. Dorrance is born, and a bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup
John T. Dorrance, born on this day in 1873, worked out how to condense soup and made canned soup cheap for American families. Campbell's chicken noodle, first sold in 1934 as "Noodle with Chicken", became the best known tin of them all.
Chicken Noodle Soup
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Chicken noodle soup is probably the most familiar comfort soup in the English-speaking world, the bowl many families reach for when someone has a cold. Chicken soups are ancient and appear in almost every cuisine, but this version, with wide egg noodles, became an American classic in the twentieth century, helped by condensed soup in a can.
Read about Chicken Noodle Soup and get the recipe →What happened
Birth of John T. Dorrance, the Campbell's chemist who invented condensed soup.
Why this soup
Dorrance's condensed soup made Campbell's famous, and chicken noodle became its best known soup.
Sources
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