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THE FOOD REFERENCE NEWSLETTER
Food History, Trivia, Quotes, Humor, Poetry, Recipes
September 16, 2001 Vol 2 #36 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
=> 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.
I have not added any new items to the website this past week.
other than the front page quiz, quote and trivia.
Normal additions with be resumed tomorrow, Monday, Sept 17
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VERSE
Feast on wine or fast on water,
And your honor shall stand sure
If an angel out of heaven
Brings you something else to drink,
Thank him for his kind attentions,
Go and pour it down the sink.
G.K. Chesterton
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TRIVIA
When dehydrated, potatoes lose more than 25% of their weight
but apples only lose 10% of their weight.
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QUOTE
"In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it
is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite.
On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder,
a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-
shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin
swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a
Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece."
A.J. Liebling
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TRIVIA
Marie, Vicomte de Botherel may have been the first to try the
concept of a dining car. In 1839 in Paris (or it's suburbs),
he installed kitchens on buses and stocked the food from
special kitchens he had built with the most modern equipment
available. His enterprise failed, and he is just a very obscure
footnote in history.
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ANCIENT & CLASSIC RECIPES
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Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Fannie Merrit Farmer (1896)
CHICKEN AND OYSTERS A LA METROPOLE
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 cups cream
2 cups cold cooked chicken, diced
1 pint oysters, cleaned and drained
1/3 cup finely chopped celery
Make a sauce of the first 5 ingredients, add chicken dice and
oysters; cook until oysters are plump.
Served sprinkled with parsley.
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QUOTE
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken
in anxiety."
Aesop
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TRIVIA
Garlic and onions are among the oldest cultivated food plants.
There're culinary, medicinal and religious use dates back more
than 6000 years.
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he features some of my articles and recipes in addition to some
GREAT content from chefs around the world.
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THIS WEEKS CALENDAR
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SEPTEMBER 17
CITIZENSHIP AND CONSTITUTION DAY
The Fugitive TV premiere
Birthdays: 1923 Hank Williams Sr., country western singer
SEPTEMBER 18
U.S. AIR FORCE ESTABLISHED
1793 CORNERSTONE OF U.S. CAPITOL LAID
1851 NEW YORK TIMES 1ST PUBLISHED (As the N.Y. Daily Times)
Birthdays: 1905 Greta Garbo, actress
1910 Ray Geiger, editor of Farmer's Almanac 1934-1964
SEPTEMBER 18-22
JACKSON COUNTY APPLE FESTIVAL, Jackson County, Ohio
SEPTEMBER 19
Birthdays: Sir William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies)
SEPTEMBER 20
1955 Phil Silvers Show TV premiere
SEPTEMBER 20-22 Seven Sweets & Seven Sours, Intercourse, PA
SEPTEMBER 21
1957 Perry Mason TV premier
Birthdays: 1866 H.G. Wells, author (The Time Machine)
SEPTEMBER 21-22
VIRGINIA PEANUT FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 22
AUTUMN BEGINS AT 7:04 P.M.
NATIONAL HUNTING AND FISHING DAY
HOBBIT DAY
1862 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
1903 ICE CREAM CONE INVENTED by Italo Marchiony
SEPTEMBER 22-29 MITCHELL PERSIMMON FESTIVAL, Mitchell, Indiana
SEPTEMBER 22-30 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WEEK
SEPTEMBER 23
1846 PLANET NEPTUNE DISCOVERED
SEPTEMBER 23-29 WILD RICE WEEK
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QUOTE
"No more turkey,
but I'd like another helping of that bread he ate."
Anonymous, quoted in Joy of Cooking
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DID YOU KNOW?
The Granny Smith Apple is an all-purpose apple with green skin,
firm, crisp flesh, and a tart flavor.
Named after Maria Ann Smith (died 1870), an Australian gardener
who developed it.
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WHO'S WHO IN THE CULINARY ARTS
Taillevent (Guillaume Tirel) (c 1380)
Taillevent wrote the first professional cookery book in France.
It was commissioned by Charles V. The full title in English is:
"Hereafter follows the Viandier describing the preparation of
all manner of foods, as cooked by Taillevent, the cook of our
noble king, and also the dressing and preparation of boiled
meat, roasts, sea and freshwater fish, sauces, spices, and
other suitable and necessary things as described hereafter."
Taillevent was made Head of the Royal Kitchens by Charles VI.
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RECIPE REQUESTS FROM READERS
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GRANOLA
.......Ingredients.......
1 Gallon Rolled Oats (Not Quick Oats)
4 Cups Pecans -- chopped
1 Cup Wheat germ
1 Cup Canola Oil
1 Cup Honey
1 Cup Maple Syrup
2 to 4 Cups Dried fruit
(raisins, apricots, dates, apples etc)
.......Instructions.......
Mix Oil with Oats and Pecans thoroughly.
Add Honey and Maple Syrup and mix thoroughly.
Bake in oven at 350 degrees until toasted deep golden brown
and crispy, checking frequently.
Cool mixture before adding dried fruit.
Chop larger pieces of dried fruit into smaller pieces.
Store tightly covered in a cool, dry place.
It will keep for up to 6 months.
Does not need to be refrigerated.
Serving Ideas : Serve with milk or soy milk and fruit.
Copyright: "James T. Ehler, 2000"
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Email your recipe requests, food info or history
questions to me at james@foodreference.com
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QUOTE
"Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of
hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and
refines the appetite."
Auguste Escoffier
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TRIVIA
The hazelnut or filbert, blooms and pollinates in the middle of
the winter. These trees can keep producing nuts for several
hundred years.
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QUOTE
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the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
Franklin Roosevelt
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TRIVIA
90% of the licorice used as a flavoring is used to flavor
tobacco. Licorice candy contains small amounts of licorice,
but the main flavor ingredient of licorice candy is anise.
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QUOTE
"I don't want to talk to you, no more, you empty-headed animal,
food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your
mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
French Soldier, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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