Saturday, August 1, 2026Daily 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:• National Raspberry Cream Pie Day
(Raspberry Trivia) • [National Mustard Day & Festival] (Aug 1, 2026 - 1st Sat) (Mustard Trivia --- Mustard Recipes)
(Mustard Quotes) • Jamaican Patty Day (Aug 1, 2026 - 1st Sat)
[Golden Krust Bakery] (see also Feb 23) • Home Fermentation Day (Aug 1, 2026 - 1st Sat) A time to celebrate fermentation - From homebrews to fermented foods [American Homebrewers Assoc] • Mead Day (Aug 1, 2026 - 1st Sat) Mead, perhaps the oldest fermented beverage, is made by combining honey, water, and yeast, and is often referred to as honey wine [American Homebrewers Assn]. • National Sunflower Day (Aug 1, 2026 - 1st Sat) • [Food Day Canada] (August 1, 2026) Celebrate the hardworking people who produce and prepare the food we all enjoy. • 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) 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. The best exercise music ever! 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
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** July 23-August 1, 2026 Delaware State Fair
Harrington, Delaware July 23-26 & July 30-Aug 2, 2026 Glier’s Goettafest
Newport, Kentucky July 27-August 1, 2026 Douglas County Fair
Lawrence, Kansas July 28-August 2, 2026 151st Broome County Fair
Whitney Point, New York July 29-August 1, 2026 Vintage Farming Days
Lynden, Washington July 29-August 2, 2026 Maine Lobster Festival
Rockland, Maine July 29-August 9, 2026 171st Ohio State Fair
Columbus, Ohio (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) All of the following events took place in the same year. What year is it?
· Wheaties breakfast cereal was created.
· Betty Crocker is created by advertising manager Sam Gale of Washburn Crosby Co. (later, General Mills).
· White Castle hamburger chain was founded in Wichita, Kansas.
· 'Wise Potato Chips' were introduced. 2) This product is introduced in 1911 and is advertised as "a Scientific Discovery Which Will Affect Every Kitchen In America" but women are often reluctant to accept free 1 1/2 pound cans of the product. The company issues a pamphlet in Yiddish when it finds that many of its biggest initial users are Orthodox Jews. The product gains more widespread commercial success during the First World War due to shortages of another product.
Can you name this product and why it was initially popular with Orthodox Jews? 3) This fruit ranges from 50 to 100 mm in diameter with a range of colors from yellow to green, green-red, yellow red to dark red. Although there exist 3000 varieties only approximately 15 – 20 are available commercially in North American grocery stores. This fruit has an average annual world production of 33 million tonnes. In the U S A approximately 60 percent of the production is consumed fresh.
Name this fruit.
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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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