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• Updated: Over 9,000 Food Festivals
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• BBQ & Grilling Articles & Recipes
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· Corned Beef Hash Recipe
· ‘Corned’ Facts & Trivia
· British Cookery Articles

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SUMMER RECIPES

· Green Bean Saute Recipe
· Green Beans Amandine with Vanilla
· Grilled Eggplant with Gruyère
· Minted Sugar Peas
· Mushrooms with Herbs
· Cheddar Stuffed Tomatoes
· Baked Sweet Peppers
· Zucchini Boats

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SUMMER FOOD ARTICLES
(Most with recipes)

· Bell Pepper Facts & Uses
· Eggplant: Identity Crisis
· Leafy Greens Articles
· Mushroom History & Folklore
· Tomatoes: Heirlooms & Recipes
· Apricot History & Description
· History of Strawberries
• More Vegetable Articles
• More Fruit Articles

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September Food Months:

For Details, History and more DAY, WEEK and MONTH Food Holiday designations for SEPTEMBER, including LINKS to Holiday Origins and Additional Information, please Click for
DETAILED SEPTEMBER FOOD CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER is:

• Better Breakfast Month
• California Wine Month
• Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
• Family Meals Month
• Food Allergy Awareness Month
• Fruit & Veggies: More Matters Month
• Hunger Action Month
• National Biscuit Month
• National Bourbon Heritage Month
• National Chicken Month
• National Cholesterol Education Month
• National Food Safety Month
• National Hazelnut Month
• National Honey Month
• National Mushroom Month
• National Papaya Month (also June)
• National Potato Month
• National Rice Month
• Organic Harvest Month
• Wild Rice Month
• Whole Grains Month
• UK: Seed Gathering Season
• UK: Sourdough September

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DID YOU KNOW?

President Andrew Jackson ranked turkey hash #1 among his favorite foods.
 

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Daily Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“My mother fried corned beef, she boiled it, she baked it, she put rice in it, she disguised it in corn bread, she boiled it in soup, she wrapped it in cloth, she beat it with a hammer, she banged it against the wall, she threw it onto the ceiling.”
James Baldwin, actor (1924-1987)
 

Food Holidays - Today is:

• National Chocolate Milk Day
• National Corned Beef Hash Day
• St. Vincent de Paul, patron of horses, hospitals, volunteers and lost articles

• UK: Red Squirrel Week (Sept 24-Oct 2, 2016)
  [The Wildlife Trusts]
• UK: British Food Fortnight (Sept 17 - Oct 2, 2016)
• UK: Seed Gathering Season (Sept 23-Oct 23, 2016)
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

On this day in:

1870 Edmund McIlhenny patented his improved method for making Pepper Sauce (Tabasco Sauce). U.S. patent No. 107,701.

1877 James Drummond Dole was born (died May 20, 1958).  The 'Pineapple King' he founded Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901, renamed Dole Pineapple Co., later Dole Food Co. (Pineapple Trivia)

1892 Joshua Pusey invented book matches (he called them Flexible Matches). He sold the patent to the Diamond Match Company in 1895 or 1896.

1898 Clementine Paddleford was born (died Nov 13, 1967). American cookbook author and food columnist for numerous publications including NY Herald Tribune, NY Sun, NY Telegram; Gourmet and This Week magazines.

1938 The 'Queen Elizabeth,' the largest passenger liner of its time, was launched in Scotland. The world's largest floating restaurant.

1941 'Blue Champagne' by Jimmy Dorsey was #1 on the music charts.

1947 'Bread and Butter Woman' was recorded by Danny Kaye & the Andrews Sisters.

1947 Musician Marvin Lee Aday, 'Meat Loaf', was born.

1957 Jay A. Pritzker purchased the Hyatt hotel at Los Angeles airport from it owner Hyatt Von Dehn. The beginning of Hyatt Hotel Corporation.

2010 The temperature in downtown Los Angeles, California hit 113 degrees F just after noon, setting a new record high temperature.
 

UPCOMING FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS

· Sept 28-October 1  Texas Rice Festival - Winnie, Texas
· Sept 29-October 9  Tulsa State Fair - Tulsa, Oklahoma
· Sept 30-Oct 2  Annual Pensacola Seafood Festival - Florida
· Sept 30-Oct 9  International Sandsculpting Championship
Virginia Beach, Virginia
· October 2  Long Island Potato Festival - Calverton, New York
· October 1-2  Annual Giant Pumpkin Festival - Elk Grove, Calif
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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ    (new DAILY questions)

1) In 1967 Wisconsin was the last state to finally permit the sale of what food product, but still maintained special taxes on it?

2) In 1903, a German importer received a ship load of beans that had been soaked with saltwater during a storm. He turned to his researchers to figure out a way the shipment might be saved.
What did they come up with?

3) Why are there thousands of grasshoppers in the foundation blocks of the First United Methodist Church in Hutchinson, Kansas?

Click here for the answers to these Food Trivia Questions
 

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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.
· 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?

The term 'corned' as in 'corned beef' refers to the very coarse salt originally used in the salt curing process. In British English 'corn' refered to any small grain or particle, especially those of cereal grains such as wheat.
The term dates back to the 17th century: "Beef...corned, young, of an Ox," Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).

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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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Classic Fish and Seafood Recipes

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IN SEASON FOR SUMMER

· Bell Pepper Trivia
· Corn Trivia
· Corn Recipes
· Cucumber Trivia
· Eggplant Trivia
· Eggplant Recipes
· Garlic Trivia
· Green Bean Trivia
· Fresh Bean Recipes
· Mushroom Trivia
· Mushroom Recipes
· Peas Trivia
· Pea Recipes
· Tomato Trivia
· Tomato Recipes
· Apricot Trivia
· Blackberry Trivia
· Kiwifruit Trivia
· Strawberry Trivia

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DID YOU KNOW?

Garum is a condiment or sauce widely used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Take some small fish, the intestines of some larger fish, maybe some oysters, salt them, maybe add some vinegar, pepper and/or other spices. Then set this in the sun for several days. At this point it is called liquimen. As this appetizing mass of stuff would ferment and putrefy it oozed a liquid. This liquid is garum. Used as a seasoning in cooking and also as a table condiment.  There are several modern versions of this: Pissalat from Nice and nuoc-mam in Vietnam are two of them.

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