Friday, August 1, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.”
W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) (Gilbert & Sullivan)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• International Beer Day (August 1, 2025 - 1st Fri)
(Beer Trivia & Facts -- Beer & Brewing Articles) • National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
(Raspberry Trivia) • Lughnassadh, the Celtic first harvest festival. • Festival of Xiuhtecuhtli: Aztec celebration of the god of the calendar. • Ghana: Homowo. The Ga people feast & mock famine. • [World Breastfeeding Week] (Aug 1-7)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY10 B.C. Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus was born. (Emperor of Rome A.D. 41-54). Known as Claudius I, supposedly he was poisoned with mushrooms by his wife Agrippina, after her son Nero was named as his heir. 1137 Louis VI "The Fat" died. (King of France). 1733 Richard Kirwan was born. Kirwan was an eccentric Irish chemist who hated flies. He also had dysphagia, which is the inability to swallow food without convulsive movements. He always dined alone. 1744 Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was born. A French naturalist, he believed in the inheritance of acquired traits. Some of his ideas influenced Darwin. 1790 First U.S. census. We had a total of 3,939,214 mouths to feed. 1793 France introduces the first metric weight, the kilogram. (Weights & Measures Trivia & Facts) 1817 Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert was born. Gilbert and his partner, Sir John Lawes, conducted agricultural experiments at Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world. They are considered founding fathers of the agricultural sciences. They are also the co-inventors of superphosphate fertilizer. 1819 Herman Melville was born (died Sept 28, 1891). American writer, best known for the novel, 'Moby Dick; or The Whale' 1870 Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was born. Ivanov was a Soviet biologist. Others had previously shown it was possible to artificially inseminate domestic animals, Ivanov developed the practical procedures in 1901. Initially working with horses, by the early 1930s the procedure was being used on other farm animals. 1889 It rained ants at Strasbourg, Germany.
(Ant Trivia and Facts) 1893 Henry D. Perky and William H. Ford were issued U.S. patent No. 502378 for a machine to produce cereals (shredded wheat).
(Breakfast Cereal Trivia & Facts) 1912 Pearson's Nut Goodie Bar was introduced. 1932 The Mars Bar, candy bar, was introduced.
(Forrest Edward Mars short Bio) 1933 Dom DeLuise was born (died May 4, 2009). Actor, comedian and cookbook author. ‘Eat This' (1988) and 'Eat This Too!' (1997). 1958 U.S. first class postage rates were raised to 4 cents and post cards to 3 cents. 1960 Chubby Checker's 'The Twist' was released. Great exercise music. 2010 Approximately 23% of U.S. railway cars were in storage. 2011 A Berlin court ordered breweries to stop advertising beer as good for peoples looks and health
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** July 23-August 3, 2025 170th Ohio State Fair
Columbus, Ohio July 24-27 & 31-August 2, 2025 Bangor State Fair
Bangor, Maine July 25-August 8, 2025 dine L.A. Restaurant Week
Los Angeles, California July 31-August 3, 2025 Phelps Sauerkraut Weekend
Phelps, New York July 31-August 10, 2024 Wisconsin State Fair
West Allis, Wisconsin August 1-2, 2025 - Washington Tuna Classic
Westport, Washington August 1-2, 2025 - Annual Brat Days
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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?
· Jasper Newton 'Jack' Daniel was born. Founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.
· Joel Houghton of Ogden, New York was issued the first U.S. patent for a dishwashing machine.
· According to the 'Census of Manufacturers' there are 2,027 bakeries in the United States.
· There are about 1,449,000 farms in the U.S., averaging 203 acres.
· There were an estimated 20 million head of buffalo sharing the western plains with 50 million open range longhorn cattle. 2) In 1636 Roger Williams, founder of Providence said this fruit "is the wonder of all the Fruits growing naturally in those parts...In some parts where the Natives have planted, I have many times seen as many as would fill a good ship, within a few miles compasse."
What fruit was he referring to? 3) According to the Code of Hammurabi of ancient Babylonia (c.1750 B.C.) what was the punishment for a merchant found diluting his beer? Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Read an article about Chef James and the FoodReference.com website published in the Winona Daily News, Minneapolis StarTribune, and numerous other newspapers: Click here for the Article
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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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