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Tagged: food, food holiday book, national tempura day, Tempura, Tempura history
Tagged: food holidays
Did you know candy corn started as a gimmick to prove the goodness of corn sugar?
#NationalCandyCornDay
Happy National Chocolate Day!
Did you know the smell of chocolate is a natural calming agent?
#NationalChocolateDay
Here are today’s five thing to know about Chocolate:
1728 Captain James Cook was born. British explorer who charted and named many Pacific Islands, including the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
1806 Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle was born. A Swiss botanist, author of ‘Origin of Cultivated Plants.’
1872 Emily Post was born. (or on October 3, 1873). Etiquette expert, newspaper columnist, author of ‘Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home’ (1922); ‘The Emily Post Cook Book’(1949); ‘Motor Manners’ (1950).
1873 Joseph F. Glidden applied for a patent for barbed wire.
1904 The first subway (underground) rail system in New York City began operating. The Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) line was 21 miles long.
1930 ‘Gorgonzola’ was recorded by Jack Hylton & His Orchestra with Leslie Sarony
1975 Rex Stout, American crime writer died. More than 70 of his novels and stories feature the fictional gourmand/gourmet detective, Nero Wolfe. Archie Goodwin, the detective’s assistant, described him as weighing “one seventh of a ton” (about 286 pounds). Shad Roe and Duck were two of Wolfe’s favorites, and he also consumed copious amounts of beer. Stout also published ‘The Nero Wolfe Cookbook’ in 1973.
Tagged: National American beer day
Here are today’s five thing to know about Mincemeat Pie:
1825 The 363 mile long Erie Canal was finished. Connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River at Albany, It provided a water route from the Great Lakes to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean, and began the great canal building era in the U.S. (1825-1840).
1854 C. W. Post (Charles William) was born. He founded the Postum Cereal Co. in 1895 (renamed General Foods Corp. in 1922) to manufacture Postum cereal beverage; 1897 Grape Nuts, 1904 Post Toasties (originally called Elijah’s Mana).
1918 Cesar Ritz died in Kussnacht, Switzerland. World renowned hotelier who managed various resort hotels, including the Grand Hotel in Monte Carlo where he met chef Auguste Escoffier. Ritz then managed the Savoy Hotel in London, with Escoffier as his chef. Eventually he opened The Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1898, and was part owner in many other hotels and restaurants, including the Carlton in London. His name became a synonym for luxury.
1979 The largest bluefin tuna weighed 1,496 pounds. It was caught in Nova Scotia.
2007 ‘Chef Tell’ (Friedman Paul Erhardt) died of heart failure. A European trained chef, he was one of the earliest celebrity TV chefs. He made appearances on Saturday Night Live, numerous talk shows, the PBS show ‘In the Kitchen With Chef Tell’ and was the inspiration for the Muppet’s ‘Swedish Chef.’ He was also a restaurant owner, cookbook author and culinary educator.
Tagged: National Mincemeeat Pie Day
Tagged: food holiday book, national pumpkin day, pumpkin day
Here are today’s five craziest, most delectably greasy foods:
1. Deep-fried hamburger:
2. The Fat Darrell
3. French fry-coated bacon
4. Monster grilled cheese
5. Deep-fried pizza
1955 The first microwave oven for home use was introduced by the Tappan Stove Company. It cost about $1,300.
1962 Chad Smith of the music group ‘Red Hot Chili Peppers’ was born.
1975 On the ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ Chuckles the Clown is killed by an Elephant while he is dressed in a peanut suit.
2001 It was reported that the remains of a crocodile that lived 110 million years ago was found in Niger. It could grow up to 40 feet long and weigh more than 8 tons!
Here are today’s five thing to know about Bologna:
Tagged: bologna day, facts, national bologna day
Boston Cream Pie was invented at Boston’s Parker House around 1912.
A dessert cook at the time was Ho Chi Minh,
the future Communist leader of North Vietnam
Here are today’s five thing to know about Boston Cream Pie:
Here are today’s five thing to know about Nuts:
Tagged: food, national nut day, nut day
Here are today’s five thing to know about Cheesecake:
Five Food facts about Eggos:
5. “Oh. Candy… leftovers… eggos… she really likes eggos.” – Mike, Stranger Things
Tagged: eggo trivia, food, food holidays book, national eggo day
Here are today’s five thing to know about Seafood Bisque:
Today’s Cupcake Trivia
Cupcakes were originally baked in teacups, hence the name Cup-cake
Here are today’s five thing to know about Cupcake:
It is said that Thomas Jefferson introduced pasta to the US around 1789
Here are today’s five thing to know about Pasta:
Here are today’s five thing to know about Liqueur:
‘If more of us valued foodand cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.’
J. R. R. Tolkien
Here are today’s five things to know about World Food Day:
If you want to read more about the Think.Eat.Save food waste campaign, follow this link and get involved!
Did you know?
One bottle of wine contains the juice of about 3 pounds of grapes
Here are today’s five thing to know about red wine:
Today’s Dessert Quote:
“A party without dessert is just a meeting”
~Julia Child
Top Five Most Popular Desserts in the US:
Tagged: dessert, dessert day, food, national dessert day
(a Colorado delicacy)
Did you know?
The 2 M’s in M&Ms stand for ‘Mars’ and ‘Murrie’ the creators of the candy
Here are today’s five thing to know about M&Ms:
National Yorkshire Pudding Day
St. Colman’s Day, patron of cattle and horses.
Tagged: food, food holidays book, M&M history, National m&m day
Sausage Pizza is the 3rd most popular pizza in the US 1st is Pepperoni Pizza, 3rd is Cheese Pizza
Here are today’s five thing to know about Pizza:
1844 Henry John Heinz was born. Founder of the H.J. Heinz company and creator of its slogan ’57 varieties.’
1887 The first accurate adding machine patented by Don Eugene Felt. (The Comptometer).
1911 Nathaniel Wyeth was born. Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor, received patent for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) beverage bottles. This was the first safe plastic strong enough to hold carbonated beverages.
Tic tac’s were introduced in 1969. The original flavors were only orange and mint.
1. Since 1980, the Tic Tac slogan has been “The 1½ Calorie Breath Mint”..
2. Tic Tacs were originally named “Refreshing Mints,” but the name was changed to reflect the sound of the mints shaking in their container.
3. They currently are sold in over 100 countries in dozens of flavors.
4. “Orange Tic Tacs are Bleeker’s one and only vice.” – Juno, 2009
5. Each Tic Tac box contains about 36 Tic Tacs.
1892 Earle Dickson was born. He invented Band-Aids for his wife, who had frequent kitchen accidents, cutting or burning herself. He worked as a buyer for Johnson & Johnson, who soon began manufacturing Band-Aids.
1913 Adolphus Busch died. Founded Annheuser Busch in 1866 with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser.
1913 A dike was blown up by the U.S. engineers to complete the final stage of the Panama Canal, and the waters of the Pacific met the waters of the Atlantic.
1933 Waldo L. Semon received a patent on a method for making plasticized PVC, now know as Vinyl.
1933 Proctor & Gamble began marketing ‘Dreft,’ the first synthetic detergent for home use. Detergents perform better in hard water than soaps.
1966 Simon and Garfunkel release their album, ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme’
Tagged: food, national tic tac day, October food holiday, tic tac day
Here are today’s five thing to know about Angel Food Cake:
1892 Earle Dickson was born. He invented Band-Aids for his wife, who had frequent kitchen accidents, cutting or burning herself. He worked as a buyer for Johnson & Johnson, who soon began manufacturing Band-Aids.
1913 Adolphus Busch died. Founded Annheuser Busch in 1866 with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser.
1913 A dike was blown up by the U.S. engineers to complete the final stage of the Panama Canal, and the waters of the Pacific met the waters of the Atlantic.
1933 Waldo L. Semon received a patent on a method for making plasticized PVC, now know as Vinyl.
1933 Proctor & Gamble began marketing ‘Dreft,’ the first synthetic detergent for home use. Detergents perform better in hard water than soaps.
1966 Simon and Garfunkel release their album, ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme’
Here are today’s five thing to know about Cheese:
Today’s Food History
Here are today’s five thing to know about Fluffernutter:
Tagged: food, food holiday book, national fluffernutter day
They first appeared in the Boston area, were originally pronounced “frap” and spelled without the accent é at the end.
Here are today’s five thing to know about Frappés:
Tagged: food, food holiday book, frappe trivia, national frappe day
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