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THE FOOD REFERENCE NEWSLETTER
Food History, Trivia, Quotes, Humor, Poetry, Recipes
September 9, 2001 Vol 2 #35 ISSN 1535-5659
James T. Ehler, Editor, james@foodreference.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> Website News
=> Quotes and Trivia
=> Ancient & Classic Recipes
=> Food Trivia Question: What Am I?
=> This Weeks Calendar
=> Did you know?
=> Who's Who in the Culinary Arts ***** NEW FEATURE
=> Requested Recipes
=> Answer to Food Trivia Question
=> Culinary Crossword Puzzle
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
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WEBSITE NEWS http://www.foodreference.com
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CHECK THE WEBSITE DAILY - I am posting a new FOOD QUIZ question
each day on the website, along with a Daily Culinary Quote,
Daily Trivia and other interesting food items.
Look for the New Feature WHO'S WHO IN THE CULINARY ARTS
beginning in this issue of the newsletter.
Personalities connected with food throughout the ages.
3 NEW Culinary Crosswords Posted Today
Beverages, Fruits and Food Safety
Major additions to Quotes, Trivia, Tips, Poetry and Recipes, etc.
and New Feature WHO'S WHO will be added Monday night.
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QUOTE
"...steam was generated beyond the power of the canister to
endure. As a natural consequence, the canister burst, the dead
turkey sprang from his coffin of tinplate and killed the cook
forthwith."
1852 news report of an early canning industry accident
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TRIVIA
Black walnuts are native to North America and have an extremely
hard shell, so they are not as popular as English walnuts.
Black walnut trees also secrete 'juglone', which kills many
herbaceous plants around the root system of the tree. It's own
natural weed killer!
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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ: NAME THAT PLANT
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QUOTE
"Nutrition... has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot
take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked
it pretty cruelly..."
Adelle Davis (1904-1974)
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TRIVIA
The process of making granulated sugar was invented by Jean
Etienne Bore. He was born in America, educated in France,
served as a member of the household guard of King Louis XV,
grew indigo in Louisiana, and when the crop failed in 1794-95
he planted sugar cane and developed the process for making
granulated sugar from sugar cane.
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ANCIENT & CLASSIC RECIPES
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THE INGLENOOK COOK BOOK - Choice Recipes Contributed by Sisters
of the Brethren Church, Subscribers and Friends of the
Inglenook Magazine (Brethren Publishing House, Elgin Ill. 1906)
SQUIRREL CROQUETTES
Dress Squirrel ready to cook, cook until meat will fall off the
bones, then let cool; work out the bones with the hands, and
chop meat fine; season with a little salt, pepper, and sage;
make into cakes; roll in corn meal, and fry in butter.
Sister Effie I. House, Montserrat, Missouri
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OYSTERS ON TOAST
Scald and season with pepper and salt 1 pint of sweet milk or
cream; add 1 pint of chopped oysters; pour the whole over
toasted bread that has been spread on a platter or in a shallow
dish.
Sister Laura Barklow, Lordsburg, California
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QUOTE
"Many are the ways and many the recipes for dressing hares; but
this is the best of all, to place before a hungry set of guests
a slice of roasted meat fresh from the spit, hot, season'd only
with plain, simple salt....All other ways are quite superfluous,
such as when cooks pour a lot of sticky, clammy sauce upon it."
Archestratus, Greek poet & gastronome (4th century B.C.)
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TRIVIA
Luau originally referred to only the leaves of the taro plant,
which are eaten as a vegetable. It then came to refer to dishes
prepared with the leaves, and finally to the feasts at which
the dishes were served.
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THIS WEEKS CALENDAR
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SEPTEMBER 10-16 AMERICA GOES BACK TO SCHOOL
SEPTEMBER 10
1846 Patent issued for Sewing Machine
1955 Gunsmoke premieres on TV
Birthdays: 1934 Charles Kuralt, TV journalist
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SEPTEMBER 11
911 DAY Honor those who work our emergency phone lines
1950 Dick Tracy premieres on TV
Birthdays: 1862 O. Henry, (William Sydney Porter) American author
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SEPTEMBER 12-15 PUMPKIN FESTIVAL, Morton, Illinois
SEPTEMBER 12
1954 Lassie premieres on TV
Birthdays: 1880 H.L. Mencken, American newspaperman, critic
1913 Jesse Owens, Olympic 4X gold medallist, 1936
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SEPTEMBER 13-16 KASS KOUNTY KING KORN KARNIVAL AND MUD DRAGS
SEPTEMBER 13-14
1814 STAR SPANGLED BANNER written by Francis Scott Key
SEPTEMBER 13
1788 U.S. Capital established at New York City
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SEPTEMBER 14-16
GOAT DAYS, Millington, Tennessee
POTATO FEAST DAYS, Houlton, Maine
CASA LARGE PURPLE FOOT WEEKEND, Fairport, N.Y. (Grape Stomping)
FESTIVAL OF THE VINE Geneva, Illinois
SEPTEMBER 14
1957 Have Gun Will Travel premieres on TV
Birthdays: 1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
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SEPTEMBER 15-16
APPLEJACK FESTIVAL, Nebraska City, Nebraska
PEDDLER'S VILLAGE SCARECROW FESTIVAL, Lahaska, Pennsylvania
KRAZY WITH KUDZU, Chimney Rock, North Carolina
SEPTEMBER 15
KING TURKEY DAYS & RACE Worthington, Minnesota
JACKSON HILL CIDER DAY, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
OZARK HAM AND TURKEY FESTIVAL, California, Missouri
1971 Greenpeace founded
1949 The Lone Ranger TV premiere
Birthdays: 1890 Agatha Christie, English author
1789 James Fennimore Cooper, American author
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SEPTEMBER 16
MAYFLOWER DAY Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England in 1620
ANNE BRADSTREET DAY 1st published woman poet in English 1650
FOUNDERS DAY CORN ROAST, Forest Grove, Oregon
1908 General Motors founded
Birthdays: Marvin Middlemark, inventor of the 'Rabbit Ears'
TV antennae, and the water driven automatic potato peeler
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QUOTE
"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish
casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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DID YOU KNOW?
The Hangtown Fry was supposedly created in 1849 during the
California goldrush, possibly at the Cary House in Hangtown
(now Placerville). Food was expensive in the mining camps and
towns, and oysters and eggs were the most expensive. Either a
miner with a bag full of nuggets wanted the most expensive meal
he could order, or it was the last request of an outlaw about
to be hanged. The Hangtown Fry is eggs, oysters and bacon cooked
together as a scramble or an omelette.
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WHO'S WHO IN THE CULINARY ARTS
Henri Charpentier, late 18th - early 19th centuries
Henri Charpentier was a French chef who became John D.
Rockefeller's chef in the U.S. He undoubtedly popularized the
flaming dessert 'crepes Suzette' in America. Some sources,
probably erroneously, attribute the actual creation of the dish
to him either at the Cafe de Paris in Monte Carlo or at
La Maison Francaise in Rockefeller Center.
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RECIPE REQUESTS FROM READERS
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GARLIC BUTTER
1/2 cup minced garlic cloves
2 TB minced shallots
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/2 pound butter, softened
1/2 pound margarine, softened
3/4 tsp black pepper
1/8 tsp ground Mace
1/4 tsp Tabasco sauce
Mix all together thoroughly, but don't make whipped butter.
Email your recipe requests, food info or history
questions to me at james@foodreference.com
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QUOTE
"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing
that helps is a glass of champagne."
Bette Davis, in 'Old Acquaintance'
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TRIVIA
In sugar refining, molasses is separated from the sugar
crystals after each of three boiling or extraction processes
that sugar cane goes through. The 3rd and final separation is
called blackstrap molasses, and is used mostly as an ingredient
in cattle feed.
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QUOTE
"...smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense,
whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose...."
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
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TRIVIA
Only about 5% of the world's oat crop is consumed as food by
humans, the majority of the crop is fed to animals.
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QUOTE
"You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for
an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?"
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
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