Author Karen Dybis Discusses The History Of The Better Made Chips And Her New Book: "Better Made In Michigan The Salty Story Of Detroit’s Best Chip"

When

Tuesday October 27, 2015: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Description

Local radio personality Martin Bandyke hosts this event, a close look at the history of one of the area’s most popular snack foods!

For many, Detroit is the crunch capital of the world. More than forty local chip companies once fed the Motor City’s never-ending appetite for salty snacks, including New Era, Everkrisp, Krun-Chee, Mello Crisp, Wolverine and Vita-Boy. Only Better Made remains. From the start, the brand was known for light, crisp chips that were near to perfection.

Discover how Better Made came to be, how its chips are made and how competition has shaped the industry into what it is today. Bite into the flavorful history of Michigan’s most iconic chip as author Karen Dybis, in her book Better Made in Michigan : The Salty Story of Detroit's Best Chip explores how Detroit “chipreneurs” rose from garage-based businesses to become snack food royalty Detroiters claim to eat the most potato chips in the nation — seven pounds compared to four everywhere else — but is this true? This book dives into those stats.

Karen Dybis is a Metro Detroit writer who has blogged for Time, worked the business desk at The Detroit News and jumped on breaking stories for publications including Corp! Magazine, Detroit Unspun and Agence France-Presse newswire. She became fascinated with Detroit’s potato-chip history after finding out there were more than two dozen chip companies in the city over the past century. Her research found there actually were more like 40-plus manufacturers of all sizes in Detroit. It was tasty research, indeed, as she tried all the flavors and companies she could find. Her favorite Better Made flavor is the Garlic Dill Pickle Krinkle Cut potato chips.

This event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.