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Chef James

“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”
 
Fernand Point, 1941

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· Original Frank's Redhot Wings

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· Fancy Ham Wrapped Fruit

· Ham & Cheese Party Loaf

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May Food Holidays:

For Details, History and more DAY, WEEK and MONTH Food Holiday designations, including LINKS to Holiday Origins and Additional Information:
SEE Detailed MAY Food Calendar

MAY is:

• American Cheese Month

• Celiac Disease Awareness Month

• Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

• Grain of the Month: Amaranth

•  Mediterranean Diet Month

• National Artisan Gelato Month

• National Barbecue Month

• National Egg Month

• National Hamburger Month

• National Salad Month

• National Salsa Month

• National Strawberry Month (also the start of peak California Strawberry season)

• National Tavern Month (since 1953)

• National Vinegar Month

• World Trade Month (since 1935)

• UK: National Asparagus Month

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DID YOU KNOW?

The J.M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 when the Company's namesake and founder sold his first product — apple butter — from the back of a horse-drawn wagon. He used an old family recipe and hand-signed every package as his personal guarantee of quality.

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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Daily Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.”
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) 'Serve It Forth' (1937)
 

FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:

• National Cherry Cobbler Day (Cherry Cobbler Recipe)

• National Walnut Day (1949, Walnut Marketing Board)  (Walnut Trivia and Facts)

• [National Pinot Grigio Day] (an aromatic, light-bodied white wine)

• [World Whisky Day] (May 17, 2025 - 3rd Sat)

• Feast of St. Pascal Baylon, patron of cooks.

• American Craft Beer Week (May 12-18, 2025)
  [Brewers Association]   (Beer Trivia  - Beer Articles)
  (Beer Quotes)

• Go Public Gardens Days  (May 9-18, 2025)
  [American Public Gardens Assn]

• [National Women’s Health Week] (May 11-17, 2025) begins on Mother’s Day

• [Food Allergy Awareness Week] (May 11-17, 2025)
  (Food Allergy Articles)

• Ireland: [Herbfeast Ireland] (May 16-18, 2025) An annual event in Ireland celebrating herbs and herbal medicine.

• UK: [National Doughnut Week]  (May 10-18, 2025) participating bakers across the UK will be helping to raise money for The Children's Trust by donating money for every doughnut they sell.

• [World Salt Awareness Week] (May 12-18, 2025)
  (Salt Trivia  ·  Salt Kitchen Tips  ·  Salt Quotes)
  (Articles: Salt of the Earth 1 & 2)
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

1733 England passes the Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from anyplace other than Britain and its possessions.
(Molasses Trivia)

1792 Under a tree near 68 Wall Street in New York City,  24 stock brokers signed an agreement on commission rates. This agreement eventually led to the establishment of the New York Stock Exchange in 1817.

1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent a Reaping Machine.

1838 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord died.  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, known simply as Talleyrand, French statesman, diplomat and grand gourmet, called the 'first fork of France.'  He served at the top levels of French governments for almost 50 years.  During this time his chefs included Bouchee, Careme, and Avice.  Many culinary preparations have been created or named for him.

1886 John Deere died.  Inventor and manufacturer, he developed the first steel plow in the 1830s, and founded John Deere & Company in 1868.

1887 Dennis W. Shorter was issued U.S. patent # 363,089 for a livestock feed rack.

1906 The 100 room Turnberry Hotel, opened on the west coast of Scotland.

1947 Seabiscuit, the championship thoroughbred race horse, died at age 14.

1967 Tennessee repealed its 1925 law making it illegal to teach evolution in public schools.
(Tennessee Food Trivia & Facts)

1979 A state record low temperature of 12°F was recorded at the summit of the dormant volcano, Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. (Hawaii Food Trivia & Facts)

1985 A record salmon, a Chinook salmon, caught with rod and reel weighed over 97 pounds and was caught in Alaska. (Salmon Trivia and Facts)

1986 ‘Chicken Song’ by Spitting Image hit #1 in UK.

1992 Lawrence Welk, champagne music-maker, died.
 

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A FEW FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS
(See All 9,000 Food, Wine & Beer Festivals)

May 9-18, 2025  Spring Georgia State Fair
Metro Atlanta, Hampton, Georgia

May 10-18, 2025  83rd Annual West Virginia Strawberry Festival - Buckhannon, West Virginia

May 14-17, 2025  47th World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest - Memphis, Tennessee

May 15-18, 2025  Calavaras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee - Calaveras County Fairgrounds, Calif.

May 15-18, 2025  52nd Pasadena Strawberry Festival
Pasadena, Texas

May 17-18, 2025  South 9th Street Italian Market Festival - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 17-18, 2025  43rd Annual Blue Crab Festival
Little River, South Carolina

(SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
 

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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ    (new DAILY questions)

11) All of the following events took place in the same year.  What year is it?
· George A. Hormel founded Geo. A. Hormel & Co. as a small retail store in Austin, Minnesota.
· Fig Newtons were created by Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.
· In St. Paul, Minnesota, Carpenter Electric Heating Mfg. Co. introduces the first electric oven for commercial sale.
· New York City has more soda fountains than saloons.

2) Roux, beurre manie, egg yolks with or without cream, cornstarch and arrowroot are all examples of what?

3) Although the name may sound German, this is an American cheese.  It was created in 1882 (1892?) by Emil Frey,  an apprentice cheesemaker in Monroe, New York. He named the cheese after a singing society, where the owner of the cheese factory had taken the first samples of the new cheese. It is a cow's milk cheese, with an edible pale yellow crust, and a semisoft, pale interior with a mildly pungent flavor and distinct aroma. Name that cheese!

Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers

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Read an article about Chef James and the FoodReference.com website published in the Winona Daily News, Minneapolis StarTribune, and numerous other newspapers: Click here for the Article
 

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Dedication
This website is dedicated to:
· Gladys Ehler, my mother, who taught me patience and how to make Sauerbraten (it is still my favorite)
· Edward Ehler, my father, who taught me a love of books and history.
· Barbara Saba, my sister, who taught me how to dance.
· Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew.  Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq.  He was 30 yrs. young.

          Chef James
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

The cobbler takes its name from the biscuit dough crust on top - it is rough looking or 'cobbled.'   It originated in the U.S. sometime in the early to mid 19th century.

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A FOOD LIFE

"There are those who say that a life devoted to food -- cooking it, eating it, writing about it, even dreaming about it -- is a frivolous life, an indulgent life.  I would disagree.  If we do not care what we eat, we do not care for ourselves, and if we do not care for ourselves, how can we care for others?"
Fictional cookery writer Hilary Small, in episode 6, series 2 of 'Pie In the Sky'

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Classic Fish and Seafood Recipes
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

Some names of candy bars that were introduced in the 1920s: Milk Nut Loaf, Fat Emmas, Big Dearos, Vegetable Sandwich, Kandy Kake (actually the original name of the Baby Ruth), Oh Henry!, Mr. Goodbar, Milky Way, Butterfingers, Snickers, and the Chicken Dinner (this chocolate peanut roll actually survived until the 1960s!)

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IN SEASON FOR SPRING

VEGETABLES
(Recipes  --  Tips)
Asparagus
Avocados
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Celery
Collard Greens
Garlic
Herbs
Kale
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Onions
Peas
Plantains
Radishes
Rhubarb
Spinach
Swiss Chard
Turnips

FRUITS (Tips)
Apples
Apricots
Bananas
Kiwifruit
Lemons
Limes
Pineapples
Strawberries

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DID YOU KNOW?

Black Walnut trees (Juglans nigra) are native to North America.  Their edible nuts have an extremely hard shell, so black walnuts are not as popular as the English walnut of commerce.

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