Saturday, February 14, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• Valentine's Day One of the busiest days of the year for restaurants. (Valentines Day Recipes) • National Cream Filled Chocolates Day • Bulgaria: Trifon Zarezan (St. Trifon Zarezan is the Bulgarian patron saint of vineyards). This is a very ancient holiday rite; Bulgarians prune the vines and sprinkle them with wine for a good harvest.
[more information: Bulgarian National Television] • UK: [East Anglia Potato Day] (Feb 14, 2026) • Kraut and Frankfurter Week ? (Feb 8-14, 2026) • Jell-O Week (Feb 9-15, 2026 2nd full week in Feb) in 2001 Jell-O was declared Official State Snack of Utah and Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt declared an annual "Jell-O Week." (Jello Trivia)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1773 Benjamin Delessert was born (died March 1, 1847). French industrialist who developed the first successful process to extract sugar from sugar beets. (Sugar Trivia) 1779 Captain James Cook died. British explorer who charted and named many Pacific Islands, including the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). (Hawaii Food Trivia) 1803 Moses Coates of Downington, Pennsylvania received a patent for a 'Machine for Paring Apples' 1833 Gottlieb Sigismund Kirchhof died. He discovered glucose, developed a method for refining vegetable oil, and experimented with brewing and fermentation. 1838 Margaret E. Knight was born. An American inventor, she invented an improved paper bag machine to make bags with flat bottoms. 1859 George Washington Ferris was born (died Nov 22, 1896). He developed the first Ferris Wheel for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois which opened on May 1, 1893. 1871 Thomas Adams, of Hudson City, New Jersey, received a patent for a method of producing chewing-gum. (See also Chewing Gum Trivia & Facts) 1876 Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for a Telephone. 1886 California oranges were first shipped East by rail. 1903 The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established. 1912 Arizona was admitted as the 48th State.
(Arizona Food Trivia) 1922 The Fleischmann Co. registered 'Fleischmann's' trademark for yeast (first used in 1876). 1923 The Velveeta Cheese Company is incorporated as a separate company in Monroe, New York. Velveeta had been invented in 1918 by Emil Frey of the Monroe Cheese Co. Velveeta cheese was packaged using a 1921 invention of a tinfoil lining that could house the cheese inside a wooden box. Its special cooking properties quickly caught on. When melted, it was as smooth as velvet (hence its name), and it would never curdle when heated. (Acquired by Kraft in 1927). 1972 The musical 'Grease' opened at the Eden Theatre in New York City. 2003 Dolly the sheep died. Dolly was the first animal cloned from an adult animal. (Born July 5, 1996) ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** February 5-16, 2026 - Florida State Fair
Tampa, Florida February 6-15, 2026 79th Annual Holtville Carrot Festival - Holtville, California February 12-March 1, 2026 Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival - Indio, California February 13-15, 2026 56th Annual Everglades Seafood Festival - Everglades City, Florida February 14-15, 2026 20th Annual Florida Keys Seafood Festival - Key West, Florida (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?
· The 7 billionth can of Spam was sold.
· There were 1,449 total breweries in the U.S., 1,406 of them small, independent and traditional craft brewers.
· About 1/3 of all honeybee colonies in the U.S. perished during due to several deadly viruses (collectively called Colony Collapse Disorder).
· The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
· The animated movie 'Ratatouille' opened in U.S. theatres. 2) Can you match the varieties with the correct fruit or vegetable?
FIG - APPLE - EGGPLANT - GRAPE - BANANA
· Northern Fox.
· Northern Spy.
· Norwegian Red.
· Gros Michel.
· Pink Bride.
· Brown Turkey. 3) This biennial herb of the Lily family is native to southwestern Asia but is cultivated worldwide as a vegetable. It is one of the oldest vegetables known to man and one of the most versatile. Its relatives include the tulip, lily-of-the-valley and the hyacinth.
Can you name this vegetable? Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers
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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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