Thursday, March 20, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.”
Walt Kelly (1913-1973) 'creator of 'Pogo' comic strip.
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• First Day of Spring: Vernal Equinox (March 20, 2025 - can be March 19, 20 or 21) • [National Bock Beer Day] • [World Flour Day] (Created by [FlourWorld Museum] in Wittenburg, Germany). • National Ravioli Day (Ravioli Recipes) • [Great American Meatout] Eat Vegan for a day [A campaign of Farm Animal Rights Movement] • St. Cuthbert's Day, patron of shepherds. • Ag Appreciation Week: March 17-22, 2025 [Community Agriculture Alliance] A time to recognize and celebrate the importance of agriculture.
(Farms & Farmers Trivia) • [National Agriculture Week] (March 16-22, 2025) A time to celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture • [National Poison Prevention Week] (March 16-22, 2025 - 3rd wk March) Established by Congress on September 16, 1961 [PL 87-319] • American Chocolate Week (March 16-22, 2025)
(Chocolate Trivia & Facts --- Chocolate Quotes)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1602 The Dutch East India Company was established and the Netherlands granted it a monopoly on trade with Asia. 1727 Sir Isaac Newton died. The story is that an apple falling on his head inspired his theory of universal gravitation. The apple is thought to have been the green skinned 'Flower of Kent' variety. 1760 Fire in Boston, Massachusetts destroyed more than 350 homes, shops and warehouses, and spread down to the wharves where ten ships were left in ashes. (Massachusetts Food Trivia & Facts) 1878 Queen Victoria Market ('Vic Market') opened in Melbourne, Australia. A historic open air market spread over two city blocks, selling everything from Australian fruit and vegetables, local and imported gourmet foods, to cosmetics, clothing and souvenirs.
(Australia Food Trivia and Facts) 1920 Douglas George Chapman was born (died July 9, 1996). Mathematical statistician and expert on marine mammal populations and population dynamics. In the 1960s he warned that the number of whales being taken by the whaling industry was far in excess of what the population could stand. 1932 Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov Died. 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. 1941 'All That Meat And No Potatoes' was recorded by jazz musician Fats Waller. 1952 Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: more than 1,300 cattle are killed to halt a food-and-mouth disease epidemic. 1954 Columbia, Pennsylvania: The first newspaper vending machines were used. 2020 Coronavirus: Distilleries switch to making alcohol based hand sanitizers; Pizza deliveries soar and Dominoes hiring 10,000 workers.
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Chandler, Arizona March 20-22, 2025 Iowa Rabbit Festival
Iowa, Louisiana March 20-22, 2025 Annual South Carolina BBQ--Shag Festival - Hemingway, South Carolina March 20-30, 2025 Oakland Restaurant Week
Oakland, California March 21-23, 2025 Razor Clam & Seafood Festival
Ocean Shores, Washington March 22, 2025 Texas Onion Fest - Weslaco, Texas March 22-23, 2025 Annual Wellington Bacon & Bourbon Festival - Wellington, Florida (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
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· E. Bean creates the orange crate. It holds about 200 oranges.
· In Berlin, Ferdinand Tiemann patents a process for making synthetic vanillin, the key flavor ingredient in vanilla beans.
· The Bing cherry is developed by a Chinese orchardman in Oregon.
· The Palace Hotel opens in San Francisco. 2) This West Indian tropical fruit is the primary source of vitamin C supplements that are labeled as 'natural.' Can you name this fruit? 3) These usually reddish colored beans have a slightly sweet taste, and are frequently used in confections, but are also served with rice, eaten as sprouts, on their own as a vegetable, dried, ground into bean meal (which can be made into a paste used in ice cream). They are popular in Japan and China, and have been cultivated there for well over 2,000 years. Name that bean! 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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