{"id":6722,"date":"2026-08-24T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:18:06","slug":"crum-invented-potato-chips-in-1853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6722","title":{"rendered":"Potato Chips Were Invented by Chef George Crum in 1853"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Potato chips were invented by Chef George Crum in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1853<\/strong>. According to legend, Crum, a Native American chef at Moon\u2019s Lake House, wanted to impress a client. He cut the potatoes into thin slices, fried them, and added salt. Today potato chips are about 35 percent of the snack food market and generate revenues of over sixteen billion dollars annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potato chips were invented by Chef George Crum in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1853. According to legend, Crum, a Native American chef at Moon\u2019s Lake House, wanted to impress a client. He cut the potatoes into thin slices, fried them, and added salt. Today potato chips are about 35 percent of the snack food <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6722' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4749,5806,1289,1291,130,1290,1292],"class_list":["post-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4749","tag-august-24","tag-chef-george-crum","tag-moons-lake-house","tag-new-york","tag-potato-chips","tag-saratoga-springs","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25022,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions\/25022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}