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NOVEMBER 13 - Today in Food History

• National Indian Pudding Day (Pudding Recipes)
  (Pudding Quotes)

• St. Diego Alacala's Day, patron of cooks.

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week  (Nov 11-18, 2023 - week before Thanksgiving) [National Coalition for the Homeless] A time to share our compassion with our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness.

• National Split Pea Soup Week: Celebrated in the U.S. since 1969  (Nov 12-18, 2023 - 2nd week in Nov)
  (Pea Soup Recipes  ---  Pea Quotes)

Australia: [Recycling Week] (Nov 13-19, 2023)
 

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1710 Charles-Simon Favart was born in Paris, France. A French playwright and pastry cook.

1805 Supposedly, Johann George Lehner, a German butcher from Frankfurt living in Vienna, Austria, created a beef and pork sausage. Called 'Frankfurter' in Austria and elsewhere 'Wiener' (also known as 'Wiener-Frankfurter' and Wienerwurst).  In America it's usually called a ‘Hot Dog.’  (Hot Dog Trivia  --  Hot Dog Quotes)

1893 Edward Adelbert Doisy was born (died Oct 23, 1986).  American biochemist who shared (with Henrik Dam) the 1943 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the isolation and synthesis of vitamin K.

1895 The first shipment of canned pineapple left Hawaii. (Hawaii Food Trivia)

1927 The Holland Tunnel opened - the first Hudson River automobile tunnel from New York City to New Jersey.

1930 The Rotolactor was developed by the Walker-Gordon Dairy. It was a 50 stall revolving milking platform that could mechanically milk over 1,500 cows in seven hours. (Dairy Cattle Trivia & Facts)

1930 The play 'Grand Hotel' opened in New York City.  In 1932 the film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

1933 One of the first sit-down strikes began. It took place at the Hormel packing plant in Austin, Minnesota.
(Hormel Trivia & Facts)

1946 Vincent Joseph Schaefer produced the first artificial snow from a natural cloud today over Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts. At 14,000 feet an airplane seeded the clouds with small particles of dry ice. Snow fell through 3,000 feet but evaporated in the dry air before it reached the ground. (In the same year, for his movie 'It's A Wonderful Life,' Frank Capra developed a new method for making fake snow using 'foamite' (used in fire extinguishers) mixed with sugar and water (some say soap flakes).

1967 Clementine Paddleford died (born Sept 27, 1898).  American cookbook author and food columnist for numerous publications including NY Herald Tribune, NY Sun, NY Telegram; Gourmet and This Week magazines.

 

 

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