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Famous Potatoes

Tags: potatoes
Series: potatopotuesday

Left to right: UI President Jesse Buchanan, Restaurateur Dario L. Toffenetti, and Idaho Governor Charles A. Robins.  Mr. Toffenetti helped put Idaho potatoes on the national restaurant scene by extensively yet poetically advertising Idaho-grown baked potatoes that were served in his restaurants in Chicago and New York.

U of I President Jesse Buchanan
U of I President Jesse Buchanan

Sources

PG 3-901f, c. 1950; Anatomy of a Restaurateur: Dario Toffenetti, October 26, 2009.

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