March 8 is International Women’s Day. But why do women need their own day? The Seattle Times found out why when it began research for a story about Continental Mills, a local company, owned and operated by the third generation of the Heily family. Continental is known for its Krusteaz brand of pancake, pie crust, biscuit and other mixes.
The Krusteaz web site features a “History” page with a photo of four women at a card table and a heartwarming story of the women of a Seattle bridge club who invented a just-add-water pie-crust mix. They called it “Crust Ease.” (Krusteaz — get it?) Except no one at Continental Mills knew who these women were.
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