Saturday, July 25, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.” Judith Olney
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Hot Fudge Sundae Day (The Hot Fudge Sundae was supposedly created in 1906 at C.C. Browns, a new ice cream parlor on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.) • Culinarians Day
(Articles about Chefs and the Restaurant Business) • National Wine and Cheese Day • St Christopher, patron of fruit dealers, gardeners, travellers.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1843 Charles Macintosh died (born Dec 29, 1766). Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics (rubberized cloth). The Mackintosh, or Macintosh raincoat was named fro him. 1868 The U.S. Congress passed the Organic Act creating the Wyoming Territory.
(Wyoming Food Trivia & Facts) 1871 Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York was issued a patent for perforated wrapping paper. 1872 It was reported to have rained black worms in Bucharest, Romania. 1874 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev was born. Lebedev was a Russian chemist who developed a method to produce synthetic rubber on a commercial scale, which used potatoes and limestone as raw materials. 1882 James Porteous patented a 'dirt scraper,' a horse powered scraper "which scrapes the dirt and carries it before it to any required place...." 1927 The Prince of Wales Hotel opens to the public in Waterton National Park, Alberta, Canada. It is designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1995. 1948 Bread rationing ends in Britain. 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. 1993 Vincent Schaefer died. A U.S. research chemist, he invented 'cloud seeding' with dry ice to cause rain or snow. 2008 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that will ban trans fats in restaurants and retail food establishments. The ban goes into effect on January 1, 2010. California is the first state to ban trans fats in restaurants. There are several cities that have banned them, and California and Oregon have previously banned trans fats in school meals.
(Trans Fat Facts & Trivia)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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
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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?
· Cristeta Comeford became the first female White House Executive Chef.
· A large, rapidly expanding toxic Red Tide algae bloom crippled the Massachusetts shellfish industry.
· The movie 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' opened in U.S. theatres.
· There are about 2.1 million farms in the U.S.
· Governor Jeb Bush signed a bill making the orange the official State Fruit of Florida.
· The U.S. produced 9.9 billion pounds of apples, more than 1/2 were grown in Washington state. 2) What do these plants all have in common: Asparagus, Onions, Garlic, Sarsaparilla, Yams, Yucca, Daffodils, Aloe, Tulips & Hyacinths? 3) A research firm polled 1,000 U.S. adults about what they did with this food. Here are the results:
· 38% said they gave it away,
· 28% actually ate it,
· 13% used it as a doorstop,
· 9% scattered it for the birds,
· 4% threw it out,
· and 8% couldn’t remember.
Name this food. 4) Here are the ingredients: Tomato, Spinach, Celery, Carrot, Beet, Lettuce, Watercress and Parlsey.
What is the product?
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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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