Not Just Plain Vanilla
You may have noticed the neon deco sign on the roof of the Adams Extract Company's distinctively low-slung Moderne building, set back from I-35 just south of Slaughter Lane and rather dramatically surrounded by prairie grassland. What you might not know, Food writer MM Pack explains, is that, unlike Betty Crocker, there really is a Mr. Adams and he still makes the extracts from top-secret family formulas.
"...you might not know is that, unlike Betty Crocker, there really is a Mr. Adams, and he still makes..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack