SEPTEMBER 13 - Today in Food History
- National Peanut Day
- International Chocolate Day
- National Celiac Awareness Day
- Fortune Cookie Day
1592 Michel de Montaigne died. French essayist. There are a few of his quotes about food and dining listed on the Food Reference website.
("A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.")
1857 Milton Snaveley Hershey of chocolate fame was born.
1876 American author, Sherwood Anderson was born. In 1941 Anderson supposedly swallowed a toothpick or a swizzle stick while at a cocktail party in the Panama Canal Zone, and died of peritonitis.
1909 'The Chocolate Soldier,' an operetta by Oscar Straus and Stanislaus Strange, opened in New York.
1916 Roald Dahl was born. British author, one of his most popular books was 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' the film version was titled 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.' Some of his other books are 'A Piece of Cake,' 'Pig,' 'Royal Jelly,' 'Smell' and 'Lamb to the Slaughter.'
1922 The highest temperature, to date, ever recorded in the shade, 136.4 degrees F was recorded in a village 25 miles south of Tripoli, Libya.
1977 Fiona Apple, singer, songwriter was born.
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