October 20 – Today’s Food History
John-Bryan Hopkins
This Day in Food History
National Brandied Fruit Day
1880 Lydia Maria Francis Child died. An American abolitionist and author of novels and children’s books. She also wrote books of advice for women including ‘The Frugal Housewife’ (1829).
1882 Bela Lugosi was born. Dracula.
1970 Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the ‘Green Revolution.’ He had developed new varieties of wheat and rice to help increase food production in the Third World
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