June 13 – Today’s Food History
John-Bryan Hopkins
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
Today’s Food History
on this day in…
- 1789 Mrs. Alexander Hamilton served a new dessert treat for General George Washington. The highlight of the dinner party was ice cream! And all this time you thought Dolley Madison was responsible.
- 1817 Richard Lovell Edgeworth died. An Anglo-Irish inventor, among his many inventions and innovations were a turnip cutter, various improvements in agricultural machines, and a velocipede.
- 1893 African American inventor T.W. Stewart received a patent for a mop.
- 2010 Jimmy Dean died at age 81. A country music singer he also founded Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in 1969, well known for its Jimmy Dean Sausage brand.
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