February 6
is
National Chopsticks Day
Five things you should know about
Chopsticks
- In old Chinese chopsticks are called kuaizi roughly meaning “quick little bamboo fellows”
- Over a quarter of the world’s population uses chopsticks as their primary utensil for eating.
- The first chopsticks were probably used for cooking, stirring the fire, serving or grabbing bits of food, and not as eating utensils.
- Chopsticks shapes and lengths very from region to region. Generally Chinese versions are tapered with blunt ends while Japanese are shorted and more pointed.
- Who HASN’T played chopsticks on the piano? It’s original name is” The Celebrated Chop Waltz.” Composed by Arthor de Lulli(pseudonym of Euphemia Allen.) in 1877. In Russia it is known as the “Cuplet Polka”
On This Day in Food History…
1617 RIP Prospero Alpini, An Italian physician and botanist; said to have introduced coffee and bananas to Europe.
1685 RIP Charles II, king of England, Tea was introduced to England during his reign. On December 23, 1675, he issued a proclamation suppressing Coffee Houses.
1865 A horse meat banquet is held at the Grand Hotel in Paris. Horse meat was considered a common man’s food of the time.
1985 Perrier introduced Perrier with ‘a twist of lemon’ – its first new product in 125 years.
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You really constructed some excellent points with ur
post, “National Chopsticks Day | Foodimentary – National Food Holidays”.
I’ll be coming back to your blog shortly. Many thanks ,Dominic
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Great information here …. I don’t understand why we those days has all those fancy chopsticks of s/st and god know what … what’s wrong with the cheap and cheerful that we are able to really eat with. Love the image.
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Reblogged this on Ashlingh and commented:
usually, i wouldn’t reblog for a WordPress site. However, I find that National Chopsticks Day is right up my alley. When you only eat with Chopsticks, you eat more naturally delicious and super-nutritious food! Everyone, try to eat with chopsticks today, okay? ‘^’
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Reblogged this on The Love Language of Food and commented:
Using chopsticks helps me eat my food slower because I am forced to take teeny tiny bites!
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Reblogged this on My Meals are on Wheels.
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