Cereal - A Brief History - The New Yorker

Breakfast cereal—typically made of puffed, extruded, or flaked grains—is a quintessentially American invention. Here, Dave Arnold and the Museum of Food and Drink team demonstrate the puffing gun, which débuted at the 1904 World's Fair, in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Cereal - A Brief History - The New Yorker

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