NOVEMBER 15 - Today in Food History• [America Recycles Day] (annually Nov 15) • National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day • Spicy Hermit Cookie Day (1906 Recipes) • National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
(Breakfast Cereal Trivia --- Cereal Quotes) • National Bundt Cake Day (Since 2006, by Nordicware)
(Prize Winning Bundt Recipe) • St. Albert the Great, patron of natural sciences and students. • National Split Pea Soup Week: Celebrated in the U.S. since 1969 (Nov 10-16, 2024 - 2nd week in Nov)
(Pea Soup Recipes --- Pea Quotes) • Australia: [Recycling Week] (Nov 11-17, 2024) • UK: [National School Meals Week] (Nov 11-15, 2024) • UK: National Baking Week (always Oct 14-20)
On this day in:1660 Asser Levy from Portugal, applied for a license to sell kosher meat. He was the first kosher butcher in New Amsterdam (New York). 1849 The first poultry show in the U.S. was held on November 15-16 in Boston, Massachusetts. 1,423 birds were exhibited by 219 exhibitors.
(Poultry Trivia --- Poultry Quotes) 1868 James Mayer de Rothschild died (born May 15, 1792). European banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family. In 1868 he acquired the famous Chateau Lafite vineyards in Bordeaux, France. (Bordeaux Wine Article --- Wine Quotes) 1881 The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (FOTLU) was organized at Turner Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It changed its name to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on Dec 8, 1886. 1882 Felix Frankfurter, U. S. Supreme Court justice, was born. 1904 King Camp Gillette was issued U.S. patent No. 775,134 for his disposable razor (applied for on Dec 3, 1901). 1952 'Jambalaya (On The Bayou)' by Hank Williams was number one on the country music charts. 1964 Bernard Frank died (born March 7, 1902). American forester and conservationist, he was one of the eight co-founders of the Wilderness Society. 1967 Elmer McCollum died. He was a chemist who discovered vitamins A, B and D. He was also the originator or the letter system for naming vitamins.
(Vitamin Trivia & Facts) 1969 The first color TV commercial in Britain was aired, for Birdseye Peas. (Birdseye Trivia) 1969 Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburger restaurant in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He named it for his 8 year old daughter Melinda, whose nickname was Wendy. 2022 The U.N. estimates that world population is now 8 billion people.
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