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LUIZA’S PASTA (continued)
• As she grew older and stouter, Luiza’s voice declined somewhat. One of her husbands stole Answer: Dell. her fortune and she died in 1940 after suffering NUMBER years of AillVERY healthLARGE and poverty. She is remem•bered Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 today, not so much for her astonishing he was asked to come up with a name for ais voice, as for one of her favorite dishes that very large number: the numeral one, followed thought to have been named after her by a chef by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young atnephews the San Francisco stayed. The what namehotel they where wouldshe suggest. dish consists of bits of turkey or chicken, swim•ming Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name in a sauce of cream and wine, served over out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character noodles. Name it. (Answer at bottom of page) named Barney was very popular. Milton chose
Barney’s HECTOR’S last name for thePASTA number. • Hector in restaurant kitchens his • Kasnerworked announced the new name for near the big home in Italy from the age of 11. His family number in his next book, altering the spelling. came the U.S. 1915Page whenand heSergey was 17,Brin and • Sixtytoyears later,inLarry he soon got a job as a chef in the kitchens of the developed a new internet search engine. Other prestigious Plazasearched Hotel in New City. and search engines each York webpage ranked them according to how many times ain • In 1926 he opened his own Italian restaurant specific term appeared on them, but Page and Cleveland. His their spaghetti was popular Brin designed searchsauce engine to so search for that diners often asked him for some to take the specific term and then find out how many home As demand his sauces links with there them. were that led back for to that page, continued to grow, he opened a spaghetti which resulted in a better search engine. sauce to thethey restaurant. so •factory They next decided needed Business a namewas that brisk that in 1929, he started a company selling reflected how many websites the search bottled sauce. They took the name engine spaghetti was searching. of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only • He wanted to name the company after himself, they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being but his Italian surname had a difficult spelling. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon So he Americanized it. The label included character Barney spelled his last name. What’sa depiction of him, wearing his white chef’s hat. it called? (Answer at bottom of page) Chef Hector experimented with canning spaCOMPUTER FACTS ghetti, and when that turned out well, he added •not In only 1981canned Bill Gates said,but “640 of memory spaghetti alsokbcanned ravioli ought to be enough for anybody.” to his product line. During World War II, the firm •supplied Moore’sAmerican Law statestroops that computer performance with rations of canned doubles every 18 to 24 months, and since pasta. By the time Chef Hector died inever 1985, his 1971, this has been true. Americanized name was known throughout the •world: HP, Google, Microsoft, Apple were all Hector Boiardi, nowand Boyardee. started in garages. Answer: Turkey Tetrazzini, named for Luiza TetAnswer: Google, from googol. razzini.
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Answer: Alfredo, who named Fettuccine Alfredo.
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