A Missing Staple Puts Many a Maine Chowder Recipe in Jeopardy (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: June 11, 2008
A white rectangular biscuit that lies somewhere between an unsalted saltine and hardtack, the Crown Pilot has long been a staple in New England homes.
Nabisco, its manufacturer, discontinued the cracker in 1996. But after months of hue and cry by loyal cracker crunchers — many of them from this island of 350 year-round residents — the company brought the cracker back in early 1997 in an elaborate ceremony aboard a ship in Boston Harbor.
All was safe, people thought, until a few months ago, when Kraft Foods, which owns Nabisco, again discontinued the cracker. Now people here on Chebeague and throughout Maine are again rallying the old troops, calling the company daily and even floating the idea of a charity event whose proceeds would help with efforts to get the cracker back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/us/11cracker.html?ref=us
By KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: June 11, 2008
A white rectangular biscuit that lies somewhere between an unsalted saltine and hardtack, the Crown Pilot has long been a staple in New England homes.
Nabisco, its manufacturer, discontinued the cracker in 1996. But after months of hue and cry by loyal cracker crunchers — many of them from this island of 350 year-round residents — the company brought the cracker back in early 1997 in an elaborate ceremony aboard a ship in Boston Harbor.
All was safe, people thought, until a few months ago, when Kraft Foods, which owns Nabisco, again discontinued the cracker. Now people here on Chebeague and throughout Maine are again rallying the old troops, calling the company daily and even floating the idea of a charity event whose proceeds would help with efforts to get the cracker back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/us/11cracker.html?ref=us
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