Sunday, November 17, 2019Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• Homemade Bread Day (Bread Recipes)
• National Baklava Day (Quick Baklava Recipe)
• Feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, patron of bakers. • National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week (Nov 16- 24, 2019 - week before Thanksgiving) [National Coalition for the Homeless] A time to share our compassion with our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness. • Australia: [Recycling Week] (Nov 11-17, 2019)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1749 Nicolas Appert was born. Appert was a French cook and inventor who developed the method of preserving food that we call canning. He originally used glass jars sealed with wax and reinforced with wire. (History of Canned Foods) 1772 Marc Antoine Desaugiers was born (died Aug 9, 1827). French composer, song writer. Wrote many songs about the joys of the table.
1857 H.N. Wadsworth of Washington D.C. received the first American toothbrush patent (U.S. patent No. 18,653). "...separating the bunches of bristles more than the common brush, so as to give more elasticity and enable them to enter between the interstices of the teeth-having the brush wide that it may be imperative on the part of the patient to brush the gums thoroughly..." 1869 The Suez Canal opened to shipping, linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea.
1936 Fredy Girardet was born. Swiss chef, he is considered one of the greatest chefs in the world, and his restaurant in Crissier, Switzerland one of the best in the world.
1966 'Don't Drink The Water,' Woody Allen's first play opened on Broadway. 1967 'Incense And Peppermints' by Strawberry Alarm Clock is #1 on the charts.
1968 NBC outraged football fans when it broke away from the final minutes of an Oakland Raiders-New York Jets game to air the TV film "Heidi," on schedule 1973 President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting, "I'm not a crook."
1988 Wal-Mart opened its first Super Center at Wheeler, Oklahoma. It carried fresh meat, produce, dairy products, and baked goods, in addition to other standard supermarket products and discount store merchandise. 1996 The World Food Summit concluded. Delegates promised full efforts to ease world hunger.
2003 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
2006 The movie 'Fast Food Nation' opened in U.S. theatres.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** UPCOMING FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS· November 10-17, 2019 - Annual San Diego Bay Wine + Food Festival - San Diego, California
· November 14-24, 2019 Southern Christmas Show
Charlotte, North Carolina
· November 15-24, 2019 Cider Week Virginia
Various locations, Virginia
· November 16-17, 2019 - The Nourished Festival
San Mateo, California
· November 16-17, 2019 11th Annual Riverfest Seafood Festival - Ormond Beach, Florida (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed Thanksgiving from the LAST Thursday in November. Three years later, in December 1941, a joint session of Congress changed it again (in part because not all states complied with Roosevelt's choice).
a) To what day did Roosevelt change Thanksgiving?
b) Why did he change it?
c) To what day did Congress change Thanksgiving?
2) Who wrote the following?:
"I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representation of our Country; he is a Bird of bad moral Character, like those among men who live by sharpening and robbing, he is generally poor and often very lousy.....The turkey is...a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original Native of America." Click here for the answers ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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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