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Weekly Trivia Quiz is below
WEDNESDAY - MAY 16, 2012
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“Death is a cold Lasagne Suspended in deep freeze”
10cc, 'Life is a Minestrone'
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
- National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
- St. Honoratus' Day. Patron saint of bakers, pastry chefs, confectioners, flour merchants.
1832 Philip Danforth Armour was born. An American industrialist, he was a pioneer in use of refrigeration and meat canning. Armour & Co. helped make Chicago the meatpacking capital of the world.
1861 John Stevens Henslow died. This British clergyman and botanist was a mentor of Charles Darwin. To get farmers to apply scientific methods, he gave lectures on the fermentation of manure. He also showed Irish farmers how to get starch from rotten potatoes during the potato famine of 1845-1846.
1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents Root Beer.
1947 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins died. He discovered what we now call 'vitamins,' essential nutrients needed to maintain health.
2005 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Michigan and New York could not prohibit people from buying wine online from out of state wineries. Some 23 other states have similar laws that presumably would also be affected by the ruling.
THIS WEEKS FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS
May 14-20, 2012 American Craft Beer Week - Nationwide
May 17-19, 2012 International Biscuit Festival - Knoxville, Tennessee
May 17-20, 2012 National Morel Mushroom Festival - Boyne City, Michigan
May 18-19, 2012 Cameron Dewberry Festival - Cameron, Texas
May 18-19, 2012 Mike The Headless Chicken Festival - Fruita, Colorado
May 19, 2012 28th Annual Poke Salat Festival - Arab, Alabama
May 19-20, 2012 53rd Artichoke Festival - Castroville, California
May 20, 2012 Whitetop Mountain Ramp Festival - Whitetop, Virginia
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TODAY’S KITCHEN TIP
CHOCOLATE: Adding any liquid to melted chocolate will cause it to 'seize up'. Sometimes even steam or a wet spoon can cause the chocolate to seize up and harden.
When chocolate 'seizes up', adding butter or vegetable oil 1 teaspoon at a time will usually save it.
To avoid the problem, chop the chocolate into pieces and combine it with the liqueur (or other liquid) and heat them together over low heat.
Some chocolates may need at least 1 tablespoon of liquid per 2 ounces of chocolate in order to melt properly with a liquid.
FEATURED ARTICLES
The Price of a Club Sandwich in 35 Cities Around the World
Garlic, Onions and Cancer Prevention
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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new on May 14, 2012)
1) The following events all took place during the same year. What year was it?
• Gerber sells 2 million cans & jars of baby food per week.
• The London Co-Operative Society opens the 1st full size supermarket in Britain.
• 'The Unprejudiced Palate' by Angelo Pellegrini is published.
• Nestle's Quik chocolate milk mix is introduced in the U.S.
• Campbell Soup Co. introduces V-8 Cocktail Vegetable Juice.
• Britain ends bread rationing in July.
• The McDonald brother's turn their 8 year old hamburger stand into a self service restaurant.
• Chef and author ('Larousse Gastronomique') Prosper Montagne dies at age 83.
2) What family of plants includes: anise, caraway, chervil, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, celery, parsnip, and goutweed, as well as the poisonous species poison hemlock, water hemlock and fool's parsley, and ornamentals sea holly, masterwort and blue lace flower?
3) Half and Half can refer to 2 totally unrelated liquids.
Can you name both, and what they consist of?
4) Paunch and pluck are the principal ingredients for what famous ethnic dish?
5) The cluster bean is most likely native to India. It is used as a vegetable, and for producing a food additive that is used as a thickener and stabilizer in commercial food processing. It has almost 8 times the thickening power as cornstarch, and is used in dressings, sauces and baked goods. It is also used in paper manufacturing, textiles, printing, cosmetics and even in pills to hold them together.
Name this food additive.
a) chicle
b) guar gum
c) agar-agar
d) gum tragacanth
6) Here are some Culinary Characters that represent various food products. Do you know which ones are real people, and which ones are fictitious?
A) Chef Boyardee.
B) Aunt Jemima
C) Dr Pepper
D) Granny Smith (apple)
E) Jack or Monterey Jack (cheese)
F) Betty Crocker
G) McIntosh (apple)
Click here for the answers to this Culinary Quiz
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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