Overview

Growing up in the 1830s in Saratoga Springs, New York, isn't easy for George Crum. Picked on at school because of the colour of his skin, George escapes into his favourite outdoor pastimes. As a young man, he discovers his passion for cooking and is hired as a chef at an upscale restaurant. A particularly fussy customer sparks George's famous invention of the potato chip - one of America's favourite snack foods. George Crum and the Saratoga Chip is a testament to human ingenuity and a tasty slice of culinary history.

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Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist, Texas Library Association (TLA) Distinguished Children's Biography List, Cleveland Public Library

[I]ts appealing format will assure its popularity as a read-aloud for the primary grades. -- School Library Journal An excellent choice for multicultural and invention units, this zesty biography adds spice to library collections. -- Booklist Spinning lively invented details around skimpy historical records, Taylor profiles the 19th century chef credited with inventing the potato chip. Crum, thought to be of mixed Native-American and African-American ancestry, was a lover of the outdoors, who turned cooking skills learned from a French hunter into a kitchen job at an upscale resort in New York state. As the story goes, he fried up the first batch of chips in a fit of pique after a diner complained that his French fries were cut too thickly. Morrison's... sinuous figures slide through them with exaggerated elegance, adding theatrical energy as delicious as the snack food they celebrate. The author leaves Crum presiding over a restaurant (also integrated) of his own, closes with a note separating fact from fiction and also lists her sources. -- Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist, Texas Library Association (TLA) Distinguished Children's Biography List, Cleveland Public Library

Author Information

Gaylia Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a retired Reading Recovery(R) teacher who is pursuing a full-time career writing children's books. She is the author of Bebop Books' Family Picnic, The Dashiki, and First Day at School. Lee & Low's George Crum and the Saratoga Chip was her first picture book. When she isn't writing, Gaylia loves to travel. Taylor lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with her husband. Frank Morrison has illustrated numerous award-winning books, including the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor winner Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, published by Lee & Low Books. Before becoming an illustrator, Morrison was a graffiti artist and b-boy. Morrison lives with his family in Georgia. You can learn more about him at morrisongraphics.com.

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