Robert Q. Topper,
Chair and Professor of Chemistry
212.353.4378
robert.topper@cooper.edu
Faculty Bio
Peter Cooper as Chemical Engineer: The Invention of The Gelatin Dessert
The following two images are exerpted from "The General Foods Family Album," published by the General Foods Corporation in 1948. This album, which is out of print, was donated to the Cooper Archives by General Foods in 1958. You can click on each page to expand it to a more readily viewable size. People were eating flavored gelatin all over Europe and America by the end of the 19th century. Forge ahead to future pages to see some evidence that Cooper marketed his clarified gelatin for consumption as a flavored dessert.