Monday, December 9, 2024Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Pray, how does your asparagus perform?”
John Adams (2nd President of U.S.), in a letter to his wife Abigail
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Pastry Day (Baking & Pastry Articles) • Lutefisk Day: Reminds residents in Norway, Finland, and Sweden to begin preparing their lutefisk for Christmas. (Lutefisk Facts and Trivia) • National Opal Apple Day [Opal Apples Website]
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1793 New York City's daily newspaper, 'The American Minerva' was established. 1814 Joseph Bramah died. An English engineer, among his many inventions was a beer engine, used to deliver beer from keg to glass without artificial carbonation being added.
(Beer Trivia & Facts --- Beer Quotes) 1868 Fritz Haber was born (died Jan 29, 1934). German chemist, he developed a method of synthesizing ammonia directly from nitrogen and hydrogen (1909). This led to large-scale commercial production of nitrogen fertilizer. 1886 Clarence Birdseye was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1924, Clarence Birdseye, with the financial backing of Wetmore Hodges, William Gamage, Basset Jones, I.L. Rice and J.J. Barry, organized the General Seafood Corporation. The birth of the frozen food industry. (Birdseye Trivia --- Frozen Food Trivia) 1907 Christmas seals go on sale for the first time. The proceeds went to fight tuberculosis. 1927 'Struttin' With Some Barbecue' was recorded by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. 1935 Lafayette Benedict Mendel died. An American biochemist who published various papers on nutrition. His work on vitamins and proteins helped establish modern standards of nutrition. 1965 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' premiered on CBS TV. 1967 The Cunard lines 1,000 ft, 81,000 ton passenger ship the Queen Mary, launched in 1936, arrived in Long Beach, California to begin its new roll as a museum, hotel and conference center. 1983 White House Counselor (later Attorney General) Edwin Messe says: "I don't know of any authoritative figures that there are hungry children.....We've had considerable evidence that people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it." 1993 On the TV show 'Seinfield,' Kramer came up with the idea to write a coffee table book about coffee tables. 1997 Karl August Folkers died. He was the first to isolate vitamin B12. 2020 Due to the pandemic, the National Restaurant Association estimates that 17% of America’s restaurants have permanently closed so far this year. 110,000 restaurants have already permanently shuttered in 2020, with 10,000 of them closed in the past three months.
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** December 1-31, 2024 Annual Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth - Portsmouth, New Hampshire December 1-31, 2024 54th Annual Christmas in Newport - Newport, Rhode Island December 7-8 & 14-15, 2024 Holiday Fineries at the Wineries - New Paltz, New York December 10-23, 2024 The Bracebridge Dinner
Yosemite National Park, California December 13-15, 2024 - 55th Annual 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair - Tucson, Arizona December 14, 2024 63rd Annual Christmas Boat Parade - Clear Lake, Texas (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?
· Sugar rationing ended in Great Britain.
· Dow Chemical creates Saran Wrap.
· The French Sardine Co. (since 1917) becomes Star-Kist Foods.
· Kraft Cheez Whiz is introduced. 2) 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. 3) These were created in 1886 in his candy store by Leo Hirschfield. Initially he would make them for his daughter, but he soon began to make them for sale to other children in the neighborhood. He named the candy for his daughter. 20 to 30 million of these are made each day, still under the same name and with the same formula as the original. The company that makes them also makes 50% of the lollipops in the U.S. Name this candy. 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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