Saturday, February 23, 2019Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Banana Bread Day (Banana Bread Recipes)
• International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day
• Ebbets Field Memorial Day (see 1960 below)
• World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 23, 2019 - last Sat) [Sword Swallowers Assoc. Int'l]
• [National 30 Hour Famine] (Feb 22-23, 2019 and April 26-27, 2019) Students in the U.S. and around the world unite to learn about hunger, raise funds to help the hungry, and then go hungry themselves for 30 hours! • National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend:
[Girl Scouts of America] (Feb 22-24, 2019) • National FFA Week: Feb 16-23, 2019 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
• UK: [Real Bread Week] (Feb 23-March 3, 2019) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1603 Andrea Cesalpino died. An Italian philosopher and botanist, he helped establish botany as a separate science. He concentrated on fruits and seeds, and he classified them by logical principles, instead of their supposed medical properties.
1822 Boston ('Bean Town') was granted a charter to incorporate as a city. (Massachusetts Food Trivia)
1846 William Horlick was born (died Sept 25, 1936). Manufacturer of food for infants and invalids, he created and patented (1883) a new formulae named 'Diastoid' - later renamed and trademarked as 'malted milk' which found new and unexpected uses and markets. 1850 Cesar Ritz was born in Niederwald, Switzerland. He managed the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo and the Grand Hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland. He also worked with Escoffier at the Savoy and Carlton in London. In 1898 he opened the first hotel with his name, The Ritz Hotel in Paris. His name and his hotels became synonymous with the luxury.
1869 Frederick Walton of London, England was granted U.S. patent 87,227 for his invention, Linoleum, the first widely used smooth floor covering. (British patent 3,210 granted May 31, 1864). 1879 Agnes Arber was born. She was a British botanist, who wrote 'Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution' (1912) and 'The Gramineae: A Study of Cereal, Bamboo and Grass.'
1884 Casimir Funk was born (died Nov 19, 1967). Funk was a Polish-American biochemist who realized certain substances in food were essential for good health, He called them 'vitamines' later changed to 'vitamins.' (Vitamin Trivia) 1896 Leo Hirshfield introduced the Tootsie Roll at his small store in New York City, and named it after his 5 year old daughter, whose nickname was 'Tootsie.' It was the first individually wrapped penny candy.
1901 In Canada, the Supreme Court rules the Manitoba prohibition law of 1900 is null and void.
1931 Helen Porter Mitchel died. You probably do not recognize that name, but you may recognize her stage name, Nellie Melba. A world famous operatic soprano born in Australia, Melba Toast and Peach Melba were named for her. Escoffier is thought to have been involved with the creation and/or naming of both dishes. (Grilled Peach Melba Recipe) 1940 Folk singer Woody Guthrie writes ’This Land is Your Land’
1944 Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born. He was a chemist who invented Bakelite, the first plastic that did not soften when heated. Those black plastic knobs on stoves were made of bakelite.
1960 Ebbets Field is torn down, the home of the former Brooklyn Dodgers. They played their last game in Ebbets Field on September 4, 1957 and deserted to Los Angeles, California. 1995 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 4,000 for the first time, closing at 4,003.33.
2007 The movie 'The Astronaut Farmer' opened in U.S. theatres.
2009 Donald Crabtree opened Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro, Maine, where the waiters and waitresses serve their customers topless.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** UPCOMING FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS· February 18-24, 2019 72nd Annual Pasco County Fair - Dade City, Florida
· February 20-24, 2019 South Beach Wine & Food Festival - South Beach, Florida
· February 21-23, 2019 - New York Farm Show
Syracuse, New York
· February 21-24, 2019 International Eelpout Festival
Leech Lake, Walker, Minnesota
· February 23-24, 2019 - 38th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook Off & Festival - Santa Cruz, California
· February 23-24, 2019 Denver Travel & Adventure Show - Denver, Colorado (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) What vegetable is the unopened flower bud of a plant belonging to the thistle family.
2) Which of these has the most Vitamin C?
a) Oranges
b) Lemons
c) Red Bell Peppers
d) Limes
e) Green Bell Peppers Click here for the 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
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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.
· 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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