MAY 4 - Today in Food History
- National Candied Orange Peel Day
- St. Florian's Day, patron of brewers and soap boilers.
1494 Columbus landed at Jamaica and met the Arawak Indians. The Arawak used Jamaican pimento (allspice) to season and smoke meat (usually pigs), the foundation upon which Jamaican Jerk developed.
1854 Asa Fitch was appointed as New York state entomologist, the first such in the U.S. He studied insects and their effects on agricultural crops.
1942 War time food rationing began in the U.S.
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