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3 unusual facts about Barbara Ketcham Wheaton


Barbara Ketcham Wheaton

In 1964-65 she attended the École des Trois Gourmandes founded in Paris by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle.

At her request (she did not want to wash dishes and wanted a durable but disposable dish) the MIT Media Lab's Counter Intelligence Group created its Dishmaker, a machine that made dishes on demand out of food-safe materials and recycled them afterwards.

Dishmaker

Barbara Wheaton did not want to wash dishes and wanted a more durable, disposable dish (Zetter 2005).



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