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JUNE 18 - Today in Food History

• Father's Day 2023. Cook your father his favorite meal
  (Father’s Day Brunch Recipes)

• National Cherry Tart Day (Tart Recipes  -  Cherry Trivia)

• International Picnic Day (Picnic Trivia)

• National Turkey Lovers' Day (June 18, 2023 - 3rd Sun)
  [National Turkey Fed]    (Turkey Trivia & Facts)
  (Turkey Recipes  ---  Turkey Quotes)

• National Go Fishing Day  (Fishing Trivia & Facts)
  (Fish Quotes)

• International Sushi Day (Ordering Sushi)

[Men’s Health Week] (June 12-18, 2023)  (week leading up to and including Father’s Day)

• UK: English Wine Week (June 17-25, 2023)
  [Wines of Great Britain]

• UK: [National Picnic Week] (June 17-25, 2023)
  (Picnic Trivia & Facts)
 

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1816 Thomas Henry died (born Oct 26, 1734). An apothecary in Manchester, England, he was the first to produce artifically carbonated water for sale.
(Seltzer Trivia & Facts)

1865 Edmund Ruffin died. He was a pioneer in the study of soil chemistry in the U.S.

1892 Macadamia nuts were first planted in Hawaii.
(Macadamia Nut Trivia  --  Hawaii Food Trivia & Facts)

1897 Juliet Corson died. Librarian, cookery teacher and writer, founder of the New York Cooking School in 1876. Her books include 'Cooking Manual' (1877), 'Twenty-five Cent Dinners for Families of Six' (1878), and 'Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery' (1886).

1898 Atlantic City, NJ opened its Steel Pier (boardwalk). The world-famous Steel Pier had 9 miles of food, beverages, concessions, amusements, concerts, etc. Ed McMahon, of the Johnny Carson Show and Publisher's Clearing House fame, was a barker on the pier in his youth. (New Jersey Food Trivia --   NJ Food Festivals)

1913 Robert Mondavi was born. A leading Napa Valley vintner. (North American Wines Articles)

1964 The African Groundnut Council was founded in Dakar.

1993 So-called 'killer bees,' Africanized honey bees, have reached Tucson, Arizona; a small dog was killed from a bee attack. Their original source was Brazil, where African bees were imported for experimental cross breeding.  (Bee Trivia and Facts)

2020 Coronavirus: To mask or not to mask, that is the question.
 

 

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