September 14 – Today’s Food History
John-Bryan Hopkins
Events of September 14

Today’s Food History
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1752 Yesterday was September 2, 1752.
1849 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born. Pavlov’s work with dogs actually started as a study of digestion. He theorized that digestion was controlled in part by sensory inputs of sight, smell and taste – and as he discovered, sound; ‘conditioned reflex.’
1976 ‘Play That Funky Music’ by Wild Cherry is #1 on the charts
2006 The U.S. FDA reported an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7. Fresh spinach is the suspected cause of the outbreak and consumers nationwide were advised not to eat bagged spinach. Eventually more than 200 people were sickened in 22 states and several deaths were reported.

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