JANUARY 11 - Today in Food History
- National Hot Toddy Day
- Japan: Kagami-Biraki (Rice Cakes Festival). The round rice cakes (kagami mochi) that were offered to the deities that visit on New Year's are broken into pieces (kagami biraki) and eaten.
1807 Ezra Cornell was born. Cornell was one of the founders of the Western Union Telegraph Co. He endowed Cornell University, an agricultural land grant university which opened in 1868. Today, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, offers many programs, including Agricultural and Life Sciences, Hotel Administration, and Nutritional Sciences.
1874 Gail Borden died. Borden was the Inventor of the process for making condensed milk, and founder of New York Condensed Milk Co., later to become the Borden Co. (Remember Elsie the Cow?)
1917 The French government regulated the price of Gruyere cheese as a war rationing method.
1949 The first recorded snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
1963 The 'Whisky A Go-Go' opens in Los Angeles - the first disco in the U.S.
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