Edward Asselbergs
Edward Anton Maria Asselbergs was a Dutch-Canadian food chemist famous for inventing the modern process of producing instant mashed potato flakes. He was raised in the Netherlands where he received his undergraduate degree, but fled to Canada with his family during the second World War. He received a master's degree from Guelph and the University of Toronto and a doctorate from Cornell. His 1955 thesis was studies on ascorbic acid synthesis in apple leaves was a foreign correspondent and war journalist, who worked for many years for Newsweek. News reports of his death confused him with the food writer of the same name. [[Category:Uncategorized
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