Rebecca Webb Carranza
The inventor of the modern tortilla chip, Rebecca Webb Carranza, has died at the age of 98. For a family party in the late 1940s, Carranza cut some of the discarded tortillas into triangles and fried them. A hit with the relatives, the chips soon sold for a dime a bag at her Mexican delicatessen and factory at the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Arlington Avenue in southwest Los Angeles.
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