Crabb was best known for his trilogy of historical novels published between 1942 and 1945 that featured Nashville landmarks: Dinner at Belmont, Supper at the Maxwell House, and Breakfast at The Hermitage. The historical sites and traditional southern meals of their titles reflect Crabb's interest in the southern way of life in Nashville during the last half of the 19th century.
Cumberland County was the birthplace of Joel Cheek who later made Maxwell House coffee.
In 1955, the coffee roasters and importers Max Hertz, Walter Jacobs, Eduard Schopf and Bernhard Rothfos (*1898 in St. Magnus, †1998 in Hamburg) got together to plan the conversion of their own factories in order to facilitate the joint operation of the complex and expensive coffee extraction process (alongside Nestlé and Maxwell).
His now-legendary Maxwell House "Percolator" TV commercial was one of these first innovations.
While sitting in the nurse's office, he impulsively opts to enroll, taking the name of Maxwell Hauser (off a Maxwell House coffee can) and begin high school all over again.
The Postum Cereals company, after acquiring Jell-O gelatin in 1925, Baker's chocolate in 1927, Maxwell House coffee in 1928, and other food brands, changed its name to General Foods Corporation in 1929.
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He worked on advertisements for such companies as British Airways, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Guinness, Kellogg's, Levi's, Maxwell House, Pepsi, and Visa.