Biography
Daniel Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following Spain's expulsion of its Jews. In 1916, after the Balkan Wars, the family moved to Barcelona. In 1919, Carasso's father began marketing a yogurt that he named after Daniel, whose nickname in Catalan was Danon.
In 1923, Carasso enrolled in business school in Marseille, France and studied bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute. He took over the family business and in 1939, opened a branch in France.
Forced to flee the Nazis in 1941, he settled in the United States. Carasso returned to France in 1951.He died at his home in Paris at the age of 103.
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