Thursday, December 4, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.”
Agatha Christie, 'The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding' (1925)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Cookie Day (Cookie Recipes)
(Cookie Trivia --- Cookie Quotes) • International Cabernet Franc Day: One of the wine world’s most important, yet often understated, red grape varieties. Cabernet Franc is one of two parents of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Carmenere, in addition to being a parent of Malbec. • St. Barbara, patron of brewers, hatters, sailors, and storms. • Cookie Cutter Week: (Dec 1-7 ?)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1619 Thirty-eight colonists arrived from England and ventured ashore to settle the land grant along the James River that became known as the Berkeley Hundred (Berkeley Plantation). They observed a prayer of Thanksgiving for their safe passage to the New World. December 4 became a day of Thanksgiving at Berkeley, "yearly and perpetually kept holy" as the plantation charter directed. 1783 General George Washington bid farewell to the officers of the victorious Continental Army in the Long Room of [Fraunces Tavern] on the corner of Pearl and Broad streets in New York City, across the Bowling Green from the Whitehall Ferry landing. There, a barge waited to carry Washington across the Hudson River to New Jersey and then to Annapolis to resign his commission. 1812 Peter Gaillard of Pennsylvania received a patent for a horse drawn mowing machine. 1858 Chester Greenwood was born in Farmington, Maine (died July 5, 1937). He invented and patented the earmuff while still a teenager (U.S. patent No. 188,292 - March 13, 1877). He also patented many other inventions including a tea kettle and a steel tined rack. In 1977 Maine designated December 21 as Chester Greenwood Day. 1860 George A. Hormel was born (died June 5, 1946). Founder of meat packing company, George A. Hormel & Co. (Hormel Foods) in Austin, Minnesota in 1891. Developed the first canned ham in 1926, introduced 'Spam' in 1937. (Hormel Trivia & Facts) 1864 John Fowler died. An English Engineer, he invented the steam-hauled plow and several other special use plows. 1867 Patrons of Husbandry, later known as the National Grange, organized by USDA employee. It was the first organized agricultural movement in the U.S. 1893 John Tyndall died (born Aug 2, 1820). British physicist. He is popularly remembered as the first to explain why the sky is blue (atmospheric molecules preferentially scatter the sun's blue rays). 1942 Chris Hillman of the music group 'Flying Burrito Brothers' was born. 1942 Bob Mosley of the music group 'Moby Grape' was born. 1970 Cesar Chavez was jailed in California for refusing to cancel a United Farm Workers lettuce boycott. 1973 Alfred C. Fuller died (born Jan 13, 1885). Canadian-born American businessman, founder of the Fuller Brush Company in 1906 in Hartford, Connecticut 2012 Pizza Hut Canada produced 110 bottles of 'Eau de Pizza Hut' perfume to commemorate reaching 100,000 Facebook fans. (Pizza Hut Trivia)
(Pizza Quotes) 2024 The stock market closed above 45,000 for the first time.
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Franklin, North Carolina December 1-31, 2025 55th Annual Christmas in Newport - Newport, Rhode Island December 5-7, 2025 German Christmas Market
Augusta, New Jersey December 6-7, 2025 - 33rd Annual Indio International Tamale Festival - Indio, California (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
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· Procter & Gamble introduces Jif Peanut Butter.
· The first completely enclosed shopping mall, Southdale Shopping Center opens in Edina, Minnesota.
· At a Fourth of July family picnic, Milton Levine came up with the idea for the Ant Farm.
· Del Monte Pineapple Grapefruit Drink was introduced 2) What flavoring is made with butter, brown sugar and sometimes also with corn syrup and water. 3) This plant is native to Central Asia, and is used to make flour, and beer, but most of it is used for livestock and poultry feed. It is most popular in Russia, but nowhere is it a major crop. Honey from this plant's blossoms is dark and highly flavored. It is not a cereal grain, but is actually an herb related to rhubarb. Name this plant. 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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