FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1976 to 1980 - Next
1976 There are no red M&Ms from 1976 to 1987
1976 The U.S. Department of Labor upgraded the definition of 'Chef' from 'domestic' to 'professional.'
1976 The popular food coloring, Red Dye No. 2, was banned by the FDA because studies had shown it might cause cancer. Red M&Ms disappeared for 11 years because of the ban.
1976 Iceland broke off diplomatic relations with Great Britain when the two couldn't settle their disagreement on the 'cod war' fishing dispute.
1976 Carl Peter Henrik Dam Died. Dam was a Danish biochemist who discovered vitamin K in 1939.
1976 'The Taste of Southern Cooking' by Edna Lewis was published.
1976 Jimmy Buffet's 'Margaritaville' was released.
1976 Crystalline sugar produced from sweet sorghum.
1976 The $2 bill is reintroduced by the U.S. Treasury.
1976 In Paris, two California wines won top honors at a blind wine tasting by the best of France's wine experts. The French were shocked, and the wine world was changed forever.
1976 Great-Britain & Iceland terminate their codfish war
1976 'Play That Funky Music' by Wild Cherry hit #1 on the charts
1976 The largest dolphin caught with rod and reel weighed 87 pounds. It was caught off the coast of Costa Rica.
1976 'Hotel California' was released by The Eagles. One of the best selling albums of all time. (An album is what we had before CDs).
1976 On the 'Barney Miller' TV show, Wojo's hippie girlfriend baked a batch of special brownies for the precinct.
1976 Water rationing went into effect in Marin County, north of San Francisco.
1976 The U.S. and Russia both extend their fishing rights to 200 miles offshore.
1976 Pierrier water was introduced in the U.S.
1976 To settle a sex discrimination lawsuit, New York's "21" Club hired its first waitress.
1977 The heaviest lobster known was caught off Nova Scotia, weighing in at 44 lb 6 oz (20.14 kg).
1977 Alice Cooper's pet boa constrictor died after its dinner of a rat bit it first
1977 The Apple II computer went on sale priced at $1298
1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline opened. It takes oil 38 days to travel 800 miles from the fields in Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez.
1977 A power blackout hit New York. Power was out for about 25 hours. There was widespread looting, unlike the calm of the 1965 blackout.
1977 On July 28 at 11:02 p.m. the first oil from Prudhoe Bay arrived at Valdez in the trans-Alaskan pipeline. It took 38 days to travel the 800 miles.
1977 Buffalo, New York declared this day 'Chicken Wing Day' in honor of the famous Buffalo Chicken Wings, created by Teressa Bellissimo in October, 1964 at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, for her son and some friends for a midnight snack.
1977 Fiona Apple, singer, songwriter was born.
1977 The Guinness Book of World Records notes that Peter Dowdeswell managed to consume 40 sandwiches in 17 minutes, 53.9 seconds at a California donut shop on October 17, 1977. Each sandwich was 6 X 3 inches, spread with jam and butter.
1977 Meat Loaf released 'Bat Out Of Hell.'
1977 The largest albacore weighed 88 pounds and was caught off the Canary Islands.
1977 Ruth Graves Wakefield died. Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, at the Toll House Inn neart Whitman, Massachusetts in the 1930s.
1977 'Bubbling Brown Sugar' closed at the ANTA Playhouse in NYC after 766 performances.
1978 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream and Crepes opened in a former gas station in Vermont.
1978 Sweden banned aerosol cans.
1978 The Humane Slaughter Act of 1978 dictates strict animal handling and slaughter practices which are closely monitored by government inspectors.
1978 Reese's Pieces peanut butter candy was introduced, an extension of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup line.
1978 'Cheeseburger In Paradise' by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32 on the charts.
1978 Garfield, the lasagna eating cat was born. He was brought into this world by cartoonist Jim Davis.
1978 Frankie Valli's 'Grease' reached number 1 on the charts.
1978 'Boogie Oogie Oogie' by Taste Of Honey is #1 on the charts
1978 The largest squid ever caught was taken in Thimble Tickle Bay, Newfoundland. It was 55 feet long and weighed two tons.
1979 Paul Prudhomme opened K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen. Louisiana born chef and restaurateur, he owned his first restaurant at the age of 17. He has also written several best selling cookbooks.
1979 The first Zagat restaurant survey was published.
1979 Conrad Nicholson Hilton died. Founder of one of the most well known and largest hotel chains. It all began when he and his father turned their large New Mexico house into an inn for traveling salesmen.
1979 Singer and actress Brandy was born (Brandy Norwood).
1979 ‘Mr. Ed’, the talking horse, died. This was not the horse who actually starred on the TV show, but another horse who did publicity work as Mr. Ed. The original Mr. Ed (Bamboo Harvester) died in 1970.
1979 'Reunited' by Peaches & Herb hit #1 on the charts
1979 General Mills introduced 'Honey Nut Cheerioes'.
1979 President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit while on a canoe trip in Georgia. He beat it away with a paddle. (Man eating, swimming rabbits?)
1979 American actress Rachael Leigh Cook was born. She began working as a model at age 10, and her picture is still used on boxes of Milk-Bone Dog Biscuits.
1979 'Sugar Babies' opened on Broadway.
1979 The largest bluefin tuna weighed 1,496 pounds. It was caught in Nova Scotia.
1979 There are about 6,000 KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) restaurants, and they sell 2.7 billion pieces of chicken.
1979 Average commercial fertilizer use on U.S. farms during the 1970s was about 43.6 million tons per year.
1979 U.S. agricultural exports were about $19.8 billion a year during the 1970s (19% of total exports).
1980 The New England Culinary Institute was founded.
1980 Joy Adamson died. Naturalist and author of 'Born Free' about Elsa, a lion cub. She had also researched culinary and medicinal uses of various plants in Kenya.
1980 "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes is #1 on the charts.
1980 Due to record high sugar prices, Coca Cola begins substituting high fructose corn syrup for half of the sucrose (sugar) used in Coca Cola.
1980 McDonald's test marketed Chicken McNuggets in Knoxville, Tennessee. They are so popular that they have to look for a second supplier.
1980 Cook's magazine begins publication. Christopher Kimball is the publisher.
1980 Lactase enzymes evaluated; provided basis for lactose-reduced dairy products.
1980 Earle McAusland, publisher/editor of Gourmet magazine died at age 89.
1980 The California Supreme Court rules that Ted Giannoulas can appear in public in his San Diego Chicken suit as long as it does not have the call letters of the radio station (KGB) that first used it as a promotional gambit.
1980 The oldest known goldfish in Great Britain, Frederica, died at the age of 40.
1980 European Community countries banned the use of hormones in cattle feed.
1980 Harland Sanders died at Shelbyville, Kentucky. Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant chain.
1980 The population of the U.S. is now 227,020,000. Farmers are 3.4% of the labor force. There are about 2,439,500 farms, averaging about 426 acres.
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