William Post, one of the inventors of an iconic breakfast staple that’s become an anytime snack with $1 billion in U.S. annual sales, has died. He was 96.

Post, known to friends as “Bill,” helped create the Pop-Tart, an idea he said most people couldn’t get their heads around at the time.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william- ... 4a8b02e322

Bob Moore, of Bob's Red Mill has passed away.

He seemed like an interesting person. And his products were quite good.

Don Sharko, who owned Don's Drive-in restaurant on the South Side, dead at 94. He fed hungry steelworkers from the nearby U.S. Steel South Works plant, taking off just two days a year — Christmas and Thanksgiving. But his kids would join him and help out at the restaurant.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries ... rs-ussteel

Jasper White, a chef who put New England’s traditional foods on the fine-dining map in the 1980s and mentored a generation of Boston-area chefs, died on Saturday in Boston. He was 69.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/dini ... ticleShare

Gloria Jean Kvetko, coffee maven who beat Starbucks to the revolution, dies at 82

https://www.chicagotribune.com/obituaries/gloria-jean-kvetko-long-grove/

David Liederman, 75, Dies; Found Sweet Success With David’s Cookies. His innovative version of the chocolate chip cookie, studded with irregular pieces of dark Swiss chocolate, led to a chain of more than 100 stores worldwide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/dini ... ticleShare

Wally Amos, an indefatigable entrepreneur who in 1975 took a $25,000 loan from a few friends in Hollywood to start Famous Amos, one of the first brands to push high-quality cookies in its own stores and one of the world’s best-known names in baked goods, died on Tuesday at his home in Honolulu. He was 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/busi ... -dead.html

Jim-Bob wrote:

Wally Amos, an indefatigable entrepreneur who in 1975 took a $25,000 loan from a few friends in Hollywood to start Famous Amos, one of the first brands to push high-quality cookies in its own stores and one of the world’s best-known names in baked goods, died on Tuesday at his home in Honolulu. He was 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/busi ... -dead.html

He was a fun guy to work with.

Michel Guérard, a driving force behind the 1960s culinary movement known as nouvelle cuisine and the creator of the enormously influential “slimming cuisine” at his 19th-century spa in Eugénie-les-Bains, France, died at his home there. He was 91.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/dini ... ticleShare

Joe Monastero, longtime owner of far North Side Italian restaurant Monastero's, has died at 93

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries ... restaurant

Dave148 wrote:

Joe Monastero, longtime owner of far North Side Italian restaurant Monastero's, has died at 93

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries ... restaurant

His son worked at Kendall College.

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