Osso Bucho; Instant Coffee

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OSSO BUCHO (continued)

   See the ADS-L archives.  The second statement is certainly wrong, but the first is possibly correct.
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 30 March 1946, pg. 11, col. 5:

   A full-lunged shout for Osso bucho, a veal knuckle braised in the Milanese manner, the recipe invented by a famous Italian chef who once cooked for King Victor Emmanuel II.  Felix tells us the Center City (23 East 39th Street--ed.) is the only place in the states where this dish is served.  That's a broad statement, Mr. Felix, but we'll let it pass.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON, FATHER OF "INSTANT COFFEE"

   OED has "instant coffee" from 1915.  A quick web search indicates that soluble "instant" coffee was first invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.
   Nestle claims to have invented "Nescafe" in 1937, but it neither invented "instant coffee" nor first marketed it.  The latter can be claimed by George Washington, who sold "Red E Coffee" about 1910.
   From the NYHT, 30 March 1946, pg. 8, col. 4:

_G. Washington_
_Is Dead, Made_
_Instant Coffee_
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_75, He Founded Company in_
   _1910, Retired in 1943;_
   _Maintained Private Zoo_
   MENDHAM, N.J., March 29 (AP).--George Washington, seventy-five, developer of an instant coffee and founder in 1910 of the G. Washington Coffee Company, died last night at his home on New Vernon Road here after a short illness.  He had retired from active participation in the business which he sold in 1943 to the American Home Products Company.
   Mr. Washington was born in Brussels in 1871. (...)  He went to Central America in 1907 and acquired a cattle ranch but in his spare time he continued experiments which led to his development of soluble coffee.
   Seventeen years after his establishment of the G. Washington Company in New York he built a plant in Morris Plains, N. J., where the product still is manufactured.

(Well, he drank the stuff and lived to 75...He knew it was right when his wife said "By George, I think you've got it!"--ed.)