AUGUST 22 - Today in Food History
- National Pecan Torte Day
On this day in:
1647 Denis Papin is born. The French physicist who invented the pressure cooker (Papin's Digester) in 1679
1865 William Sheppard of New York City received a patent for liquid soap.
1867 Charles Francis Jenkins was born. An inventor who is best known as an early television pioneer. Among his many inventions was a cone-shaped drinking cup.
1867 Maximilian Bircher-Benner was born. He was a Swiss doctor who developed the cereal product 'Muesli,' which is similar to Granola.
1939 The first U.S. patent was issued for a disposable whipped cream aerosol container. Julius S. Kahn's patent was titled "An Apparatus for Mixing a Liquid with a Gas" and was specifically concerned with making whipped cream, using a ordinary soda bottle.
1965 Ellen Church died (born Sept 22, 1904). The first airline stewardess. (See May 15, 1930)
1970 'Spill The Wine' by Eric Burdon & War hit number 3 on the charts.
2004 Sonya Thomas won $500 and a trophy belt at the World Lobster Eating Contest in Kennebunkport, Maine. She ate 9.76 pounds of lobster meat (38 lobsters) in 12 minutes. She also holds the record for hard boiled eggs, and pork & beans (8.4 pounds in 2 minutes 47 seconds). She weighs only 105 pounds.
2007 A 12 year-old boy in Manchester, England was charged with assault for throwing a cocktail sausage at a 74 year-old man.
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