Sally Gerber (born 1927) is the daughter of Daniel Frank Gerber who established the baby food enterprise
Gerber Products Company
Gerber Products Company is an American purveyor of baby food and baby products headquartered in Fremont, Michigan. Gerber Products Company is a subsidiary of Nestlé.
Other Gerber products include breastfeeding pumps and other supplies, baby bott ...
.
[Ingham, p. 444]
Sally Gerber was ill as a baby, and when she was seven months old, her
pediatrician
Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many of their youth ...
recommended a diet of fruits and vegetables which her mother prepared for her daily.
[Belasco, p. 102] Her mother Dorothy soon grew tired of hand-straining fruits and vegetables every day. She turned to her husband "Dan", owner of the
Fremont Canning Company along with his father
Frank Daniel Gerber, for help.
[Avakian, p. 73-74]
Footnotes
Sources
* Avakian, Arlene Voski et al., ''From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies'', Liverpool University Press (2005),
* Belasco, Warren James et al., ''Food Nations'', Routledge (2002),
* Ingham, John N., ''Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders: A-G'', Greenwood Publishing Group (1983),
1927 births
Living people
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen
21st-century American women
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