Franklin Baker Company of the Philippines

[Peter Kamen]

Good day. I am looking for as much historical information as possible regarding Franklin Baker coconut from its birth as a company through today. I am in process of collecting data to be compiled into a book that we are writing about the company. Any news, articles, pictures, documents, website, etc will be greatly appreciated.

Peter

[Peter Kamen]

Hello again.  Still looking for historical documents on Franklin Baker.  I am the Product Marketing Manager with Franklin Baker and we are in the process of conducting research to publish a Heritage coffee table book.  You wealth of knowledge and hidden gems would be much appreciated!

[Hugh Harries]

Anon (1928) Coconut: sun-sweetness from the tropics. Hoboken, NJ.: Franklin Baker Company. [Recipes for the use of Baker's Coconut].

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Trager, J (1996) The Food Chronology: a food lover's compendium of events and anecdotes, from prehistory to the present p.346.

Desiccated coconut - "Baker's Coconut Co. has its beginnings at Philadelphia, where local miller Franklin Baker, 47, accepts a cargo of fresh coconuts in lieu of cash for a consignment of flour that he has shipped to a merchant at Havana. Political unrest in Cuba has made it impossible for the merchant to raise cash.  When Baker finds that he cannot sell the coconuts in Philadelphia markets, he buys machinery and develops a method for producing shredded coconut meat of uniform quality, a product which he promotes to local housewives. The coconut business will prove so successful that Baker will sell his flour mill in 2 years and establish the Franklin Baker Co., dealing in coconut meat."

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Hay, AM (1972) A century of coconuts. New York: Calvert, Vavasseur & Co. page 20.

The first American firm to go into the desiccated coconut business, although on a small scale compared with the Ceylon operations, was the Franklin Baker Co. As a result of the Spanish-American War, it received a shipment of coconuts in lieu of payment from a customer in Cuba. From these nuts, Baker produced a sweetened product in a plant in Brooklyn. As coconuts continued to be shipped from the Caribbean, processing of the nuts was moved to Hoboken, N.J. This plant continued to operate well into the 1930's.
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Hugh

Multi-tasking? No problem - just do one thing at a time.

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