Friday, November 13, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”
Robert Byrne
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Indian Pudding Day (Pudding Recipes)
(Pudding Quotes) • St. Diego Alacala's Day, patron of cooks. • National Split Pea Soup Week: Celebrated in the U.S. since 1969 (Nov 8-14, 2026 - 2nd week in Nov)
(Pea Soup Recipes --- Pea Quotes) • UK: [National School Meals Week] (Nov 9-13, 2026) • Australia: [Recycling Week] (Nov 9-15, 2026)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1710 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. 2023 Big Berry Picked Today: Costa's berry farm in Corindi, New South Wales, Australia grows world's heaviest blueberry. An Eterna variety blueberry, it weighed in at 20.4 g (0.71 oz), and was 39.31 millimeters (1.55 inches) across, about the size of a ping-pong ball. (Blueberry Facts & Trivia)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** October 29-Nov 15, 2026 120th Edition of the State Fair of Louisiana - Shreveport, Louisiana November 5-15, 2026 Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair - Jacksonville, Florida November 6-14, 2026 - National Peanut Festival
Dothan, Alabama November 12-15, 2026 Port Barre Cracklin Festival
Port Barre, Louisiana November 13-15, 2026 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival - Easton, Maryland November 15, 2026 New York BagelFest
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) All of the following events took place in the same year. What year is it?
· Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the Milky Way candy bar.
· Scotland: Cutty Sark Scots Whisky was created by Berry Brothers & Rudd wine and spirit merchants.
· Welch's grape jelly is introduced.
· Libby, McNeill & Libby introduce the first commercially canned tomato juice.
· Yoo Hoo chocolate drink is introduced. 2) An English dish originally from India, it will contain rice, lentil, and hard cooked eggs, with a rich cream sauce (bechamel), sometimes with curry. The English version usually contains smoked fish, or cooked fish. 3) One of the few native American cheeses, this is a pungent, surface ripened cheese, with a pale yellow crust and semi soft interior. It was developed by Emil Frey of New York in 1882, and was named after a singing society. Name this cheese. 4) Why should you not cook Cauliflower in aluminum or iron pot? 5) What are Chateau Potatoes? 6) What are Chitterlings?
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Dedication
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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