Steven Anthony Davis was a prominent business leader, a former chairman, and CEO of Bob Evans Farms Inc. from 2006 until 2014. Davis was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Dolores and Henry Joseph Davis on June 8, 1958. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin- … Read MoreSteven Anthony Davis (1958-2022)
Marcus Samuelsson is an Ethiopian-Swedish chef and restaurateur. Samuelsson was born Kassahun Tsegie on January 25, 1973, in Ethiopia. His father was president of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. His unnamed mother died during the Ethiopian tuberculosis epidemic of 1974. Samuelsson and his sister, Fantaye, … Read MoreMarcus Samuelsson (1973- )
Internationally renowned chef Rougui Dia’s Muslim parents, a housemaid and a mechanic, arrived in France from a village of N’Ganno in Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa. She grew up with her six brothers and sisters in the old working-class city of Neuilly-Plaisance … Read MoreRougui Dia (1976- )
The Coon Chicken Inn was a fried-chicken restaurant chain located in the Pacific Northwest from the late 1920s through the late 1940s. The chain was famous for its ubiquitous “Coon” logo, a caricatured African-American male rooted in 19th century minstrel theatre and early 20th century … Read MoreCoon Chicken Inn
