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Chef James

“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”
 
Fernand Point, 1941

FEATURED FOR MARCH

Updated: Over 9,000 Food Festivals

Lenten and Easter Articles & Recipes

Appetizer & Snack Recipes
 

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FEATURED RECIPES & TIPS

· Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

· Leprechaun Pie Recipe

· Easy Green Velvet Cupcakes

· Green with Envy Cheesecake Bars

· Creamy Irish Coffee Martini

· Roast Leg of Lamb

· Easter Egg Potatoes

· Meatball Appetizer Recipes

· Guacamole Recipes

· Buffalo Wings Recipe

· Original Frank's Redhot Wings

· Pineapple Hot Wings

· Ultimate Party Wings

· Crab Stuffed Mushrooms

· Sharp Cheddar Fondue

· Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms

· Kick Off Kabobs

· Saucy Pizza Pockets

· Sloppy Joe Biscuit Cups
 

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March Food Holidays:

For Details, History and more DAY, WEEK and MONTH Food Holiday designations, including LINKS to Holiday Origins and Additional Information:
SEE Detailed MARCH Food Calendar

MARCH is:

• American Red Cross Month
Annual Presidential Proclamation since 1943.

• Caffeine Awareness Month
  · Caffeine Facts

• Grain of the Month: Quinoa
  · Quinoa Trivia & Facts

• National Flour Month
  · Flour Facts  · Flour Kitchen Tips

• National Frozen Food Month
  · Frozen Food Facts & Trivia
  · Frozen Food Tips
  · What Not to Freeze

• National Kidney Month

• National Noodle Month
  · Pasta & Noodle Recipes
  · Noodle Trivia

• National Nutrition Month
A nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
  · Nutrition Articles

• National Peanut Month
National Peanut Month had its beginnings as National Peanut Week in 1941. It was expanded to a month-long celebration in 1974.
  · Peanut Facts  · Peanut Taste Tests

• National Sauce Month
  · Sauce Recipes  ---  Sauce Quotes
  · Sauce Making Articles

• Canada: Nutrition Month
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

Plastic milk bottles were introduced in 1967.

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Friday, March 29, 2024

Daily Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
 

FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:

• National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day (Recipe)
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

1848 At about midnight, for the first time in recorded history, a huge upstream ice jam stopped almost all water flow over Niagara Falls (both American Falls and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls) for 30 hours. You could actually walk out into the riverbed below the falls.

1877 Rowland H. Macy died (born Aug 30, 1822). Founder of Macy's department store, October 27, 1858.

1886 Coca-Cola was created by Dr. John Pemberton.
(Coca-Cola Trivia & Facts)

1900 Charles Elton was born.  Elton was an English biologist who first developed the idea of a 'food chain.'

1903 Gustavus Franklin Swift died.  Founder of the meat-packing business Swift & Co., the inventor of the refrigerated railway car, and the first to ship 'dressed' beef to eastern markets instead of live animals.

1918 Samuel Moore 'Sam' Walton was born (died April 5, 1992).  Founder of Wal-Mart stores.

1943 Meat, Butter and Cheese rationing began in the United States due to World War II shortages.

1956 Singer Parry Donahue of The Waitresses (a New Wave band) was born today.

1958 'Tequila' by the Champs was number one on the music charts.

1980 Walter H. Deubener died. He owned the S.S. Kresge grocery store in St. Paul, Minnesota and invented the handled grocery bag.

1999 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time, closing at 10,006.78.

2004 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country to ban smoking in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants.

2020 Coronavirus:  About 200 million in U.S. now under stay-at-home.

2021 The massive container ship that has been blocking the Suez Canal since Tuesday March 23, disrupting the global supply chain, has been refloated and moved. More than 350 ships are backed up awaiting passage through the canal.
 

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UPCOMING FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS

March 25-31, 2024  Citrus County Fair
Inverness, Florida

March 30, 2024  Elberta German Sausage Festival
Elberta, Alabama

March 30, 2024  35th Annual Helen Trout Tournament
Helen, Georgia

April 1-30, 2024  Idaho Craft Beer Month
Statewide, Idaho

April 5-6, 2024 - 46th Annual Pig Cookin' Contest
Newport, North Carolina

(SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
 

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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ    (new DAILY questions)

1) All of the following events took place in the same year.  What year is it?
· George A. Hormel founded Geo. A. Hormel & Co. as a small retail store in Austin, Minnesota.
· Fig Newtons were created by Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.
· In St. Paul, Minnesota, Carpenter Electric Heating Mfg. Co. introduces the first electric oven for commercial sale.
· New York City has more soda fountains than saloons.

2) What is the official state beverage of Ohio?

3) How many poppy seeds are in a pound?

4) What popular 18th century beverage was named after a village in Germany, and is still popular today?

Click Here for Quiz Answers
 

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Read an article about Chef James and the FoodReference.com website published in the Winona Daily News, Minneapolis StarTribune, and numerous other newspapers: Click here for the Article
 

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Dedication
This website is dedicated to:
· Gladys Ehler, my mother, who taught me patience and how to make Sauerbraten (it is still my favorite)
· Edward Ehler, my father, who taught me a love of books and history.
· Barbara Saba, my sister, who taught me how to dance.
· Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew.  Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq.  He was 30 yrs. young.

          Chef James
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

Oranges do not ripen after they are picked, but lemons do.

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A FOOD LIFE

"There are those who say that a life devoted to food -- cooking it, eating it, writing about it, even dreaming about it -- is a frivolous life, an indulgent life.  I would disagree.  If we do not care what we eat, we do not care for ourselves, and if we do not care for ourselves, how can we care for others?"
Fictional cookery writer Hilary Small, in episode 6, series 2 of 'Pie In the Sky'

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Click Here for
Food Emergency
Websites, Phone #s, E-mails, etc.

 

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Classic Fish and Seafood Recipes
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

There is a round variety of carrot about the size of a beet. They taste the same as regular carrots.

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IN SEASON FOR WINTER

APPLES
  Trivia  ---  Tips

MANGOS - Tips
  Trivia

RASPBERRIES
  Trivia  ---  Tips

BEETS - Trivia | Tips
  Recipes  |  Quotes

BROCCOLI - Trivia
  Tips  ---  Recipes

BRUSSELS SPROUTS
  Trivia  ---  Recipes

CAULIFLOWER - Tips
  Trivia  ---  Recipes

COLLARD GREENS
  Trivia  ---  Recipes

CRANBERRIES
  Trivia  ---  Tips

KALE - Trivia
  Tips  ---  Recipes

PARSNIPS - Trivia
  Tips  ---  Recipes

PUMPKINS - Trivia
  Recipes

RUTABAGAS - Trivia
  Tips  ---  Recipes

SWEET POTATOES and YAMS - Trivia
  Tips  ---  Recipes

SWISS CHARD
  Trivia  ---  Recipes

TURNIPS - Trivia
  Recipes

WINTER SQUASH
  Tips  ---  Recipes

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DID YOU KNOW?

There are more than 5,000 varieties of pears, not all of them are pear-shaped. Pear trees can still produce fruit after 100 years.

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