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JANUARY 20 - Today in Food History

- National Buttercrunch Day
- Reindeer Day
- National Cheese Lovers Day (see 1964 below)
- St. Sebastian, patron of gardeners.
- National Coffee Break Day (2011) To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Coffee Association. (www.ncausa.org)

 

1910 Joy Adamson was born. Naturalist and author of 'Born Free' about Elsa, a lion cub. She had also researched culinary and medicinal uses of various plants in Kenya.

1920 The 50-50 Club opened, supposedly the first 'speakeasy.'

1964 The world's largest cheese was made, a 34,000 pound cheddar. It was created by the Wisconsin Cheese Foundation for the 1964/65 New York World's Fair. It took 170,000 quarts of milk from 16,000 cows. It was eaten at the 1965 annual meeting of the Wisconsin Dairymen & Cheesemakers Association.

1988 Russian goldminers found the remains of a prehistoric mammoth with flesh so well preserved that it looked edible. ("Where's Mikey, he'll eat anything").

1998 American researchers announced they had cloned calves that could be used in the production of medicinal milk.

 

 

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