National Zucchini Bread Day
Five Food Finds about Zucchini
- A zucchini has more potassium than a banana.
- The word zucchini comes from ‘zucca’ the Italian word for squash.
- Biggest is NOT best. The most flavorful zucchinis are small- to medium-sized.
- According to World’s Healthiest Foods Nutrition info, nutrients and vitamins found in zucchini can help prevent cancer and heart disease.
- The flower of the zucchini plant is also edible.
Today’s Food History
on this day in…
1856 Charles Luttwedge Dodgson met a little girl named Alice Liddell. Alice had a penchant for consuming unknown (and apparently psychoactive) food, pills and liquids that she found while exploring a very large rabbit hole.
1932 Meadowlark Lemon, basketball star, was born.
1945 Stu Cook of the music group ‘Creedence Clearwater Revival’ was born.
1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway opened. It connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Its completion opened the heart of Americas industrial and agricultural areas to ocean going vessels for shipping. (The official opening ceremony is June 26)
When I was a kid my grandma made chocolate zucchini cake more than zucchini bread. I thought zucchini was horrible – any vegetable, really – so I missed years of opportunity to eat a great recipe. I love that your food posts bring me back to childhood so often!
Droooooollllll……. I want some. Now.
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You know…Alice in Wonderland.
lol I was looking for the footnote to see what else you had to say about it.
lol…I was having a little Foodimentary fun…
I’ve never seen that before – it sounds very good ;-)
I had no idea that there was a National Zucchini Bread day, if I had then I’d have released my ‘Let them eat Chocolate and Zucchini cake’ post today instead of back in February! Aagh! Is there a national day for every kind of food? I love eating courgette/zucchini – especially raw thinly sliced in a salad. Its good to know from your post that they have so many nutrients. Thanks!
In France I have eat stuffed zucchini flowers – tasted wonderful.