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AUGUST 21 - History of food and drink
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National Spumoni Day
St. Bernard Tolomeo's Day, patron of olive growers.
1814 Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford died. American physician who invented the percolator, a pressure cooker and a kitchen stove. He is frequently credited with creating baked Alaska.
1988 Pubs are now allowed to stay open 12 hours each day (except Sunday) in the U.K.
1997 The largest food recall in U.S. history. Hudson Foods closed its Nebraska plant and recalled 25 million pounds of ground beef that were potentially contaminated with E. coli 01557:H7
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