cookbook
Catalog Number
2017.18.22Title
Salads A Recipe Book By HeinzMaterials
paperDescription
Cookbook, drawing of a salad bowl, full, with vegetables near the bowl. At the top, there is a drawing of a wooden spoon. Within this spoon is the title of the cookbook, "Salads A Recipe Book by Heinz". Inside it says, "from the Heinz Home Economic Test Kitchens, H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Copyritht 1956 by the H. J. Heinz Company".History
In 1896 an agent from the H. J. Heinz Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania traveled to west Michigan looking for a place to build a processing factory. Eventually Holland, MI was chosen due to the soil, harbor access and the lobbying of local businessmen (including William Beach, Gerrit J. Diekema, Arend Visscher and Oscar E. Yates).By 1898 a three-story factory went up on west 16th Street on Black Lake (Lake Macatawa) known as branch No. 7 (1903, 1914 city directories). John J. Baxa (1874-1967) was Holland's manager in 1906 through 1914, followed by James A. Hoover (1872-1957) from approximately 1921 to 1940 and Charles B. McCormick (1897-1977) from approximately 1945 to 1961 (Holland city directories).