SEPTEMBER 28
Today in Food History• National Strawberry Cream Pie Day
(Pie Recipes --- Pie Quotes) • National Alpaca Farm Days (Sept 28-29, 2024)
[Alpaca Owners Association] • National Hunting & Fishing Day (Sept 28, 2024 - 4th Sat) [Presidential proclamation, 1972] • National Drink Beer Day
• St. Wenceslaus' Day, patron of brewers:
(Beer Trivia & Facts -- Beer Quotes) • International Poke Day (A Hawaiian raw fish dish). • Maine Lobster Week (Sept 22-29, 2024)
[Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative]
(Lobster Trivia --- Lobster Recipes) • UK: [British Food Fortnight] (Sept 20-Oct 6, 2024) • UK: Seed Gathering Season (Sept 22-Oct 22, 2024)
[The Tree Council] Gather seeds, fruits and nuts which can be nurtured to grow the trees of the future.
On this day in:1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal, sailing under the Spanish flag, sailed into San Diego Bay. Cabrillo was the first European to reach California.
(California Food Trivia & Facts) 1725 Arthur Guinnesss was born (died Jan 23, 1803). Irish brewer, founder of the Guinness brewery. 1891 Herman Melville died (born Aug 1, 1819). American writer, best known for the novel, 'Moby Dick; or The Whale' 1895 Louis Pasteur died. A French scientist, who showed that microorganisms were responsible for disease, food spoilage and fermentation. He developed the process for killing these organisms by heat, called Pasteurization.
(Pasteurization Facts & Trivia) 1901 King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson founded the American Safety Razor Company to sell stamped steel razor blades for use with a one-time purchase razor handle. (name changed to Gillette Safety Razor Company.in 1902). 1902 Emile Zola died. French writer and critic who was also known as a gourmand. His detailed descriptions of simple meals, banquets and eating in his novels are among the best to be found anywhere. He was also known for his own luxury dinner parties. "What will be the death of me are bouillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities." 1925 'Applesauce' opened at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City. 1937 Joseph Bernard Friedman, of San Francisco, California, received U.S. patent #2,094,268 for soda straw with a flexible section that can be bent without reducing the diameter of the straw - a 'bendy' soda straw. [Original patent drawing] 1939 The final broadcast of the NBC musical variety radio show 'The Royal Gelatin Hour' (formerly 'The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour' from 1929-1936). 1954 George Harrison Shull died. An American botanist, he developed the first hybrid corn. He is frequently called the 'father of hybrid corn.' As a result of his researches, corn yields per acre were increased by 25 to 50 percent.
(Corn Trivia and Facts) 2004 The U.S. Treasury issued a new $50 bill featuring touches of red, blue and the number 50 now shifts from copper to green. 2009 An Islamic court in Malaysia has upheld a sentence of six strokes of the cane handed to a Muslim woman who was caught drinking beer in public.
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