Daily Detroit
Daily Detroit
Apr 14, 2021
Remembering Detroit's Prince Of Potato Chips; Plus 4 Things To Know Around Town
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For our feature conversation, Potato chip expert, author and journalist Karen Dybis joins us to talk about the passing of the prince of chips. You might know him as Better Made CEO, Salvatore "Sam" Cipriano.

But first, some news.

00:29 - Coronavirus update, including stunningly high case positivity rates across the region and in the city of Detroit.

02:25 - Facial recognition technology used to identify suspects in Detroit is in the news again, this time as the ACLU is suing on behalf of a wrongly arrested man.

05:12 - Detroit's casino revenues are rebounding

06:07 - Lithia Motors has closed on the acquisition of the Suburban Collection.

06:58 - Our feature conversation with Karen Dybis on the passing of Salvatore "Sam" Cipriano. Karen is in our opinion Detroit's foremost potato chip historian and author of "Better Made in Michigan: The Salty Story of Detroit's Best Chip" 

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Made-Michigan-Detroits-American/dp/162619985X/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=karen+dybis&qid=1618447372&sr=8-4

Follow Karen on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/karendybis

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