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NOVEMBER 2 Today in Food History

• National Deviled Egg Day  (Deviled Egg Recipe)
  (Egg Quotes)

[International Stout Day] (Nov 2, 2023; 1st Thurs)
(Stout is a dark, heavy bodied beer)

• [National Men Make Dinner Day] (Nov 2, 2023)

• National Fig Week (Nov 1-7) (Fig Trivia & Facts)
 

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1671 King's Brewery opens, Quebec City's first brewery.

1734 Daniel Boone was born. American pioneer and frontiersman.

1755 Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of Louis XVI of France, was born (guillotined Oct 16, 1793). She would sometimes wear potato blossoms as a hair decoration.  Attributed quote: "If they have no bread, let them eat cake."

1867 The first issue of 'Harpers Bazaar' magazine was published.

1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
(North Dakota Food Trivia  --  South Dakota Food Trivia)

1903 The first issue of the British newspaper 'The Daily Mirror' was published. It was launched as a newspaper for women, run by women.

1912 The XIT Ranch in Texas sold its last head of cattle. At its peak the ranch had more than 160,000 head of cattle on its nearly 3 million acres, with 1,500 miles of fencing. [XIT Ranch History]

1947 Dave Pegg of the music group 'Jethro Tull' was born.

1947 Canada ends wartime price controls on sugar and molasses, ending more than 5 years of food rationing.

1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, died. You will find many food related quotes from his works on the Food Reference Website. ("Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.")

1957 William C. Coleman died (born May 21, 1870). Inventor and founder of the Coleman Company, manufacturer of camping equipment.

1978 The largest squid ever caught was taken in Thimble Tickle Bay, Newfoundland. It was 55 feet long and weighed two tons.

1995 The Soup Nazi first appears on the ‘Seinfeld’ TV show.

2007 The animated 'Bee Movie' opened in U.S. theatres. The story of a bee who discovers that humans actually eat honey and decides to sue them. (Bee Trivia)

2010 San Francisco passed a law that allows toys to be given away with kids restaurant meals only if the meal contains less than 600 calories.

 

 

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