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Chef James

“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”
 
Fernand Point, 1941

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April Food Holidays:

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SEE Detailed APRIL Food Calendar

APRIL is:

• Alcohol Awareness Month

• Defeat Diabetes Month (National Diabetes Month is November)

• Fresh Florida Tomato Month - fresh tomatoes are harvested from every growing district in Florida in April.

• Global Child Nutrition Month

• Grain of the Month: Sprouted Grains

• National B.L.T. Month

• National Garden Month

• National Garlic Month

• National Grange Month

• Grilled Cheese Month

• National Pecan Month

• National Soft Pretzel Month

• National Soyfoods Month

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DID YOU KNOW?

Elephant garlic is actually closely related to the leek, and thought by some to be the wild ancestor of the leek. The bulbs are very large, and can weigh more than 1 pound. They are also much milder than regular garlic, and can be slice raw in salads. Whole cloves can be sauteed in butter and served as an appetizer.

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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Daily Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.”
Louis Diat (1885-1958)
 

FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:

• National Amaretto Day (Amaretto Cheesecake)

• Garlic Day (Garlic Trivia  |  Buying and Using Garlic)
  (What Would We Do Without Garlic?  -  Blue Garlic)

• National Rice Ball Day (Rice Ball Recipes)
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

1877 Ole Evinrude was born. He invented the first practical outboard motor in 1909. The idea came to him while rowing a boat to a picnic one day. He decided there must be an easier way to move a small boat on the water.

1882 Charles Darwin Died. Pioneering English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution. His works include 'Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man.'

1904 Richard Pough was born. An American ecologist he was the founding president of the Nature Conservancy and helped found the World Wildlife Fund. In 1945, he was one of the first to warn about the dangers of the pesticide DDT to fish and birds.

1933 Jayne Mansfield was born. American beauty contest winner, stage and screen actress. Supposedly the only title she ever turned down was 'Miss Roquefort Cheese,' because she believed it "just didn't sound right." (Roquefort Cheese Trivia & Facts)

1937 Antonio Carluccio was born. Italian chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. TV show 'Antonio Carluccio's Italian Feasts'
[Website: www.antonio-carluccio.com]

1937 William Morton Wheeler died (born March 19, 1865). American entomologist, a world authority on ants. His books include 'Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior' (1910) and 'Social LIfe Among the Insects' (1923).
(See also: Why Not Eat Insects?)

1938 RCA-NBC began broadcasting the first regular TV programs from the Empire State Building for five hours per week.  Very few TV sets existed to receive the programs.

1947 Mark Volman of the music group 'The Turtles' was born.

1968 'Honey' by Bobby Goldsboro is #1 on the charts.

1975 Percy L. Julian died. An African American chemist, he worked on synthesizing various compounds from soy beans. One of his creations was a foam fire extinguisher refined from soya protein.
(Soybean Trivia)

1995 The Supreme Court ruled that alcohol content could be listed on beer labels, overturning a 1935 law which had prohibited it. (Beer Trivia and Facts)

 

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A FEW FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS
(See All 9,000 Food, Wine & Beer Festivals)

April 5-20, 2025 - Sourdough Bread Festival
Cherry Valley, California

April 18-26, 2025  Hernando County Fair and Youth Livestock Show - Brooksville, Florida

April 19, 2025  42nd Annual Petaluma Butter & Egg Days - Petaluma, California

April 19, 2025  Great New Mexico Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival - Albuquerque, New Mexico

April 19-27, 2025  72nd Annual World's Biggest Fish Fry - Paris, Tennessee

April 22-27, 2025  Vidalia Onion Festival
Vidalia, Georgia

April 23-27, 2025  88th National Trout Festival
Kalkaska, Michigan

(SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
 

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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?
· Heinz Tomato Soup went on sale in the UK for first time.
· The population of the U.S. is now 92,228,496. Farmers are 31% of the labor force.
· The Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet and nothing happened.
· Ward Baking Company of Chicago, Illinois opened the first completely automated bread plant in the U.S. Untouched by human hands.
· Cellophane was invented by Jacques Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist

2) Thyme, sage, betony, horehound, rosemary, hyssop, lavendar, and savory are all members of what plant family?

3) Marshmallows were originally made from a plant, the marsh mallow.  Which of the following plants are in this same Mallow family?
  a) Hollyhock;  b) Cotton;  c) Okra;
  d) Rose of Sharon

4) Can you name a vegetable that has 2 to 4 times as much vitamin C as Oranges?

Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers

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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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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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DID YOU KNOW?

The Lily Family of plants includes asparagus, onions, garlic, sarsaparilla, yams, lilies, yucca, daffodils, aloe, tulips and hyacinths.

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A FOOD LIFE

"There are those who say that a life devoted to food -- cooking it, eating it, writing about it, even dreaming about it -- is a frivolous life, an indulgent life.  I would disagree.  If we do not care what we eat, we do not care for ourselves, and if we do not care for ourselves, how can we care for others?"
Fictional cookery writer Hilary Small, in episode 6, series 2 of 'Pie In the Sky'

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Classic Fish and Seafood Recipes
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

Annatto (Bixa orellana) is a tropical American tree whose seeds are used to produce a food coloring used in cheese, margarine, butter, rice and smoked fish. Annatto is widely used in Latin America and the Caribbean cuisines as both a coloring agent and for flavoring.   Central and South American Indians used the seeds to make a body paint, and as a lipstick. (also called achiote, and lipstick tree)

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IN SEASON FOR SPRING

VEGETABLES
(Recipes  --  Tips)
Asparagus
Avocados
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Celery
Collard Greens
Garlic
Herbs
Kale
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Onions
Peas
Plantains
Radishes
Rhubarb
Spinach
Swiss Chard
Turnips

FRUITS (Tips)
Apples
Apricots
Bananas
Kiwifruit
Lemons
Limes
Pineapples
Strawberries

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DID YOU KNOW?

Garlic was an ingredient in mixtures used to attach gold leaf to early works of art.

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