Passing: Edwin Traismnan, Helped Create Cheez Whiz & Perfect McDonald's Fries (NY Times/NPR)

Edwin Traisman, a food scientist who helped standardize McDonald’s French fries and develop Cheez Whiz for Kraft Foods, as well as researching the risks of E. coli bacteria, died Tuesday in Madison, Wis. He was 91 and lived in Monona, Wis.

Read this New York Times article about how he changed the world of food preparation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/us/09traisman.html

Also this rememberance from NPR News:
http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1021