Tuesday, February 10, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“These things are just plain annoying. After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. Have the shrimp cocktail instead.” Miss Piggy
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Cream Cheese Brownie Day
(Brownie Recipes --- Brownie Trivia) • UN: [World Pulses Day] Pulses are the edible, dried seeds of plants in the legume family, including lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, and beans. • Kraut and Frankfurter Week ? (Feb 8-14, 2026) • Jell-O Week (Feb 9-15, 2026 2nd full week in Feb) in 2001 Jell-O was declared Official State Snack of Utah and Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt declared an annual "Jell-O Week." (Jello Trivia)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1766 Benjamin Smith Barton was born (died Dec 19, 1815). American physician and naturalist, he wrote the first American botanical textbook, 'Elements of Botany' (1803). 1775 English author and poet Charles Lamb was born. 1835 Victor Hensen was born. An oceanographer, he coined the name 'plankton' for the tiny organisms found water. Practically all animal life in the sea is ultimately dependent on plankton. 1846 Ira Remsen was born (died March 4, 1927). American chemist, codiscoverer in 1879 (with Constantine Fahlberg) of saccharin, the artificial sweetener. (Saccharin Trivia & Facts) 1874 Lewis Latimer and Charles W. Brown of Massachusetts were issued U.S. patent No. 147,363 for a special toilet system for trains: "Improvements in Water-Closets for Railway Passenger-Cars".
(Toilet Trivia) 1933 The Postal Telegraph Co. of New York City delivers the first singing telegram. 1944 Author Frances Moore Lappe was born. She is the author of the best selling 'Diet for a Small Planet' (1971) which indirectly encouraged a vegetarian diet, by demonstrating that raising animals for food was an extremely wasteful use of resources. Also: 'World Hunger: 12 Myths', 'Food First', 'Taking Population Seriously'. etc. 1945 The Andrews Sisters recording of 'Rum and Coca Cola' hit #1 on the popular music charts. 1956 'My Friend Flicka' premiers on CBS TV. The series about a boy and his horse is set on the Goose Bar Ranch in Montana. 1957 The ‘Styrofoam’ cooler was invented. 1961 The Niagara Falls hydroelectric project, was officially placed in service to provide electricity. It was the largest hydroelectric facility in the Western world at the time. 1990 Perrier recalls its entire inventory of Perrier mineral water (160 million bottles) in the United States after tests show the presence of benzene, a carcinogen, in a small sample of bottles. 1997 Jerome Namias died (born March 19, 1910). An American meteorologist and first head of the Extended Forecast Division of the U.S. Weather Bureau. He pioneered 5 day, 30 day and 90 day extended forecasts and long range seasonal forecasts 2009 Authorities confirmed Africanized honey bees, sometimes called “killer bees,” have been detected in Utah for the first time. (Bee Trivia & Facts)
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New York, New York February 5-16, 2026 - Florida State Fair
Tampa, Florida February 6-15, 2026 79th Annual Holtville Carrot Festival - Holtville, California February 12-March 1, 2026 Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival - Indio, California February 13-15, 2026 56th Annual Everglades Seafood Festival - Everglades City, Florida February 14-15, 2026 20th Annual Florida Keys Seafood Festival - Key West, Florida (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
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What year is it?
· In England, Henderson William Brand begins manufacturing A1 Steak Sauce.
· The first full cargo of bananas arives in New York on the schooner 'Harriet Smith.'
· The first known recipe for tomato ketchup appears in 'The New England Farmer'. 2) This plant is used in the production of alcohol, and distilled spirits, a sweet syrup, sugar, starch, synthetic fibers such as nylon, certain plastics, in the manufacture of wood resin, lubricating oils and synthetic rubber, as an abrasive, pipes, oil, margarine, saccharin, paints, soaps, linoleum and gasohol.
Name this plant.
a) soybean. b) wheat. c) corn.
d) turnip. e) sunflower. 3) This shrub or small tree with red, olive sized sour fruit, is a member of the dogwood family. The fruit is used in jellies or preserves, pickled like olives, or used to make wine.
Name this plant. Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers
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This website is dedicated to:
· Gladys Ehler, my mother, who taught me patience and how to make Sauerbraten (it is still my favorite)
· Edward Ehler, my father, who taught me a love of books and history.
· Barbara Saba, my sister, who taught me how to dance.
· Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew. Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq. He was 30 yrs. young. Chef James
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