Wednesday, July 8, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.” Katherine Whitehorn
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Blueberry Day (Blueberry Trivia & Facts) • National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day • St. Arnulph of Soissons' Day, Patron of hop-pickers, beer brewing. • [Spain: Fiesta de San Fermin] - Running of the Bulls, Pamplona, Spain (July 6-14, 2026) • National Salad Week (July 7-13, 2026)
(Salad Recipes) • UK: [Great British Pea Week] (July 6-12, 2026)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1497 Vasco de Gama left Lisbon with four ships, to search for a sea route to India. He was the first European to sail there (notwithstanding Columbus’ valiant try), and he opened the area to Portuguese trade (and colonization). 1810 Gabriel Gustav Valentin was born. This German-Swiss physiologist was the first to discover the digestive activity of pancreatic juice. 1831 John Styth Pemberton was born. Pemberton was the pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola in 1885.
(Coca-Cola Trivia and facts) 1844 Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln was born. She was the author of the original ‘Boston Cooking School Cook Book’, before Fanny Farmer took it over. 1856 In Rockport, Massachusetts, 200 women rampaged through town and destroyed every container of alcohol they could find. Afterwards, alcohol sales steadily declined, and Rockport along with several dozen other Massachusetts towns eventually became 'dry' (no liquor allowed). Except for a year-long interruption in the 1930s, Rockport remained dry until 2005. 1870 Congress enacted Federal Trademark Act 1870, first federal act permitting registration of trademarks. 1887 A riot breaks out at the saloonkeepers picnic in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Minnesota Food Trivia) 1881 Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, supposedly invented the Ice Cream Sundae, when he served a customer ice cream topped with chocolate syrup (used to flavor ice cream sodas). It was a Sunday, and flavored soda water was not served on Sundays to respectable people.
(Wisconsin Food Trivia) 1886 It rained snails in Cornwall, England. (Sounds like a description of a Monty Python skit). July is one of the best months for raining all sorts of living creatures. (Snail Trivia and facts) 1938 Dr. West's Miracle-Tuft toothbrushes first to offer plastic, non-animal, bristles. 1949 Wolfgang Puck was born. Austrian chef, cookbook author and restaurateur. Award winning Spago restaurant in Los Angeles (1982). He now hs more than 20 fine dining restaurants in addition to numerous pizza bars, bistros, cafes, express outlets, catering services, cultural center cafes, gourmet foods, cookware, appliances, etc.
[Official website: wolfgangpuck.com/] 1957 William Cadbury, chocolatier died at age 89. 1989 'Good Thing' by Fine Young Cannibals is #1 on the charts. 1996 'Wannabe,' the first #1 hit by the Spice Girls, was released. 2009 Concerned about the environmental impact, the town of Bundanoon in New South Wales, Australia became the world's first town to ban the sale of bottled water. The ban becomes effective September 26. (Australia Food trivia)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** June 19-July 12, 2026 Alameda County Fair
Alameda County Fairgrounds, California July 4-11, 2026 170th Gibson County Fair
Princeton, Indiana July 4-11, 2026 - 100th National Cherry Festival
Traverse City, Michigan July 8-12, 2026 - Winona County Fair
St. Charles, Minnesota July 9-11, 2026 39th Annual Slugburger Festival
Corinth, Mississippi July 9-11, 2026 Delta Chicken Festival - Delta, Ohio July 10-12, 2026 Moxie Festival - Lisbon, Maine (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?
· Cocoa Puffs cereal by General Mills and Cocoa Krispies by Kellogg's are introduced.
· Sweet n' Low artificial sweetener was introduced.
· The first Pizza Hut opens in Wichita, Kansas.
· McDonald's sold its 100 millionth hamburger.
· Jif peanut butter is introduced. 2) A brownish, bitter, foul-smelling gum resin obtained from the roots of an Asian member of the parsley family, used as a condiment. Used in minute quantities in Indian cooking, it prevents flatulence. 3) This member of the rose family is a small bushy deciduous tree native to western Asia and North Africa. The highly prized edible nuts are actually the seeds of a plum-like fruit, and as a matter of fact the plant is related to plums and peaches. They are cultivated in southern Australia and California, and they occupy more farming area in California than any other crop except grapes (about 400,000 acres).
a) almonds. b) macadamia nuts. c) hazelnuts.
d) peanuts. e) pistachios.
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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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