MARCH 19 - Today in Food History
- Poultry Day
- National Chocolate Carmel Day
- Feast of St. Joseph, patron of confectioners
- The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano, California each year.
1936 Canned beer is sold to the public in Britain for the first time, by Felinfoel Brewery in Wales.
1942 Clinton Hart Merriam died. A biologist, he studied the effects of using birds to control agricultural pests. He also helped found the National Geographic Society, and what is now known as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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