Betty Boop: The International Sensation The animated Betty Boop began life in 1932 as a flapper, a relic of the...

Billie Holiday Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan Gough in 1915, lived a remarkable, ground-breaking, and tragic life. She was raised...

In the news today, I read that federal agents were arresting Mexican immigrants in sanctuary cities. It reminded me of...

What is the connection between iconic silent screen actor Charlie Chaplin and a favorite retro candy? Charlie Chaplin eating shoe...

Ok – I don’t get why Americans hate corn syrup. It’s sugar. I know, the whole corn-taking-over-the-nation fear and the...

Actually the venerable and nicely-textured gummy bear started life as the Turkish delight, a vegetarian medicine-turned-treat that originated around 900...

Olmac Head THANK YOU MEXICO! Without Mexico we would be chocolate-less. Of course, early on Mexico was home to the...

When you go to an amusement park, you may notice that there are two types of roller coaster riders: one...

Born in London in 1889, he was destitute as his mother was mentally and physically ill and his father, an...

Penny candy has been a favorite for kids since the burgeoning industrial age of the mid-1800s. They could buy an...