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April 8 is National Empanada Day

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Here are today’s five thing to know about Empanada:

  1. The Spanish word for bread is “pan”.  “Empanar” is a verb form that means “to bread”.  Emapanada is the past-participle, “breaded”.
  2. It’s basically a single-serving turnover.  It can be filled with sweet foods like fruits, sugars, and syrups, or savory foods like meats, cheeses, and oils.
  3. They originated in northwest Spain, in a region known as Galicia.
  4. Today they are most popular in Spanish-speaking countries across Europe and South America.
  5. Originally they were made with bread dough, but now they are made with pastries as well.

Fun Fact:

The bolani is an Afghan variant of the empanada. Bolanis are flatbreads stuffed with vegetables such as spinach or potato. They are served in the evenings during the Muslim feast of Ramadan as well as at other times.

Bolivian empanadas are made with beef, pork, or chicken, and usually contain potatoes, peas and carrots, as well as a hard-boiled egg, an olive, or raisins. They are called salteñas and are moon-shaped pouches of dough customarily seamed along the top of the pastry.

Empanadas are known as panada or pastel in Indonesia. The panada, has thick crust made of fried bread, giving it bread texture and is filled with spicy tuna and chili peppers. The pastel has thin crust and a fillings typically made of finely diced potatoes, carrot, green onions, chicken, garlic, and glass noodles.

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Today’s Food History

  • 1513 Ponce de Leon landed in Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. He thought it was just another island of the Bahamas.
  • 1862 John D. Lynde of Philadelphia patented the first aerosol dispenser.
  • 1873 Alfred Paraf received a patent for the first commercially viable margarine manufacturing process.
  • 1879 The Echo Farms Dairy of New York began selling milk in glass bottles, the first in the U.S.
  • 1946 ‘Catfish’ Hunter, baseball pitcher, was born.
  • 1992 R.I.P. Benjamin Eisenstadt. He invented the artificial sweetener, ‘Sweet ‘n Low’ (granulated saccharin and dextrose).

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April 8 is National Empanada Day

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Interesting Food Facts about Empanadas

  1. The Spanish word for bread is “pan”.  “Empanar” is a verb form that means “to bread”.  Emapanada is the past-participle, “breaded”.
  2. It’s basically a single-serving turnover.  It can be filled with sweet foods like fruits, sugars, and syrups, or savory foods like meats, cheeses, and oils.
  3. They originated in northwest Spain, in a region known as Galicia.
  4. Today they are most popular in Spanish-speaking countries across Europe and South America.
  5. Originally they were made with bread dough, but now they are made with pastries as well.

Fun Fact:

The bolani is an Afghan variant of the empanada. Bolanis are flatbreads stuffed with vegetables such as spinach or potato. They are served in the evenings during the Muslim feast of Ramadan as well as at other times.

Bolivian empanadas are made with beef, pork, or chicken, and usually contain potatoes, peas and carrots, as well as a hard-boiled egg, an olive, or raisins. They are called salteñas and are moon-shaped pouches of dough customarily seamed along the top of the pastry.

Empanadas are known as panada or pastel in Indonesia. The panada, has thick crust made of fried bread, giving it bread texture and is filled with spicy tuna and chili peppers. The pastel has thin crust and a fillings typically made of finely diced potatoes, carrot, green onions, chicken, garlic, and glass noodles.

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Today’s Food History

  • 1513 Ponce de Leon landed in Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. He thought it was just another island of the Bahamas.
  • 1862 John D. Lynde of Philadelphia patented the first aerosol dispenser.
  • 1873 Alfred Paraf received a patent for the first commercially viable margarine manufacturing process.
  • 1879 The Echo Farms Dairy of New York began selling milk in glass bottles, the first in the U.S.
  • 1946 ‘Catfish’ Hunter, baseball pitcher, was born.
  • 1992 R.I.P. Benjamin Eisenstadt. He invented the artificial sweetener, ‘Sweet ‘n Low’ (granulated saccharin and dextrose).

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National Empanada Day

John-Bryan Hopkins

National Empanada Day

Five Food Finds about Empanadas

The Spanish word for bread is “pan”.  “Empanar” is a verb form that means “to bread”.  Emapanada is the past-participle, “breaded”.

It’s basically a single-serving turnover.  It can be filled with sweet foods like fruits, sugars, and syrups, or savory foods like meats, cheeses, and oils.

They originated in northwest Spain, in a region known as Galicia.

Today they are most popular in Spanish-speaking countries across Europe and South America.

Originally they were made with bread dough, but now they are made with pastries as well.

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1513 Ponce de Leon landed in Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. He thought it was just another island of the Bahamas.

1862 John D. Lynde of Philadelphia patented the first aerosol dispenser.

1873 Alfred Paraf received a patent for the first commercially viable margarine manufacturing process.

1879 The Echo Farms Dairy of New York began selling milk in glass bottles, the first in the U.S.

1946 ‘Catfish’ Hunter, baseball pitcher, was born.

1992 R.I.P. Benjamin Eisenstadt. He invented the artificial sweetener, ‘Sweet ‘n Low’ (granulated saccharin and dextrose).

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Tagged: aerosol dispenser, artificial sweetener, empanada, facts, five food finds, food, foodimentary, fun, international cuisine, international foods, island of the bahamas, life, national empanada day, national food holidays, northwest spain, ponce de leon, restaurants, todays food history

April 8 – National Empanada Day

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National Empanada Day

Five Food Finds about Empanadas

The Spanish word for bread is “pan”.  “Empanar” is a verb form that means “to bread”.  Emapanada is the past-participle, “breaded”.

It’s basically a single-serving turnover.  It can be filled with sweet foods like fruits, sugars, and syrups, or savory foods like meats, cheeses, and oils.

They originated in northwest Spain, in a region known as Galicia.

Today they are most popular in Spanish-speaking countries across Europe and South America.

Originally they were made with bread dough, but now they are made with pastries as well.

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1513 Ponce de Leon landed in Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. He thought it was just another island of the Bahamas.

1862 John D. Lynde of Philadelphia patented the first aerosol dispenser.

1873 Alfred Paraf received a patent for the first commercially viable margarine manufacturing process.

1879 The Echo Farms Dairy of New York began selling milk in glass bottles, the first in the U.S.

1946 ‘Catfish’ Hunter, baseball pitcher, was born.

1992 R.I.P. Benjamin Eisenstadt. He invented the artificial sweetener, ‘Sweet ‘n Low’ (granulated saccharin and dextrose).

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Tagged: empanada, facts, five food finds, food, foodimentary, fun, international cuisine, international foods, life, national empanada day, national food holidays, todays food history

Mexican Coke

John-Bryan Hopkins

Across the South grocery stores are introducing a Mexican product that is reaching cult status. A product as American as well… Coca-Cola.  Only this time more “authentic” than the ones you can buy in your local corner mart or vending machine.  Mexican Coke’s main appeal is not only the old fashioned bottle and logo but, it’s use of real sugar as a primary sweetener. Since the early 1980’s most American colas changed their primary sweetener from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup.  This move was in part to save money as well as insure a longer more stable shelf life. Seems there is a growing segment of the population is now calling out for “old glory” in the form of a Mexican bottle…

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