FEBRUARY 5 - Today in Food History
- National Chocolate Fondue Day
- World Nutella Day
- Pork Rind Appreciation Day (1st Annual in 2012 on Super Bowl Sunday)
- African Heritage & Health Week February 1-7, 2013
(commemorates the foods, flavors and healthy cooking techniques that were core to the wellbeing of African ancestors from Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the American South.)
On this day in:
1840 Sir Hiram Maxim was born. An American born inventor. Among his hundreds of inventions were a hair curling iron, a mousetrap, an automatic sprinkling system, gas motors, and a machine gun.
1872 Lafayette Benedict Mendel was born. An American biochemist who published various papers on nutrition. His work on vitamins and proteins helped establish modern concepts about nutrition.
1884 Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, received a patent for an egg beater.
1914 William Burroughs, novelist, was born. He wrote 'Naked Lunch.'
1967 Tom Smothers fell into a vat of chocolate today. (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiered).
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