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October 4 is National Taco Day

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

Founder, Glenn Bell, first opened the chain “Del Tacos,” a hot dog and taco franchise.
He was the first to fry his taco shells in advance. Before then, they were fried on demand.
They were the first fast food chain to have move tie-in promotions.
In 1962, a tacos only cost 19 cents.
Even though the 1990 Chihuahua was an advertising phenomenon, taco sales actually went down during that period.

Fun Fact:

The word taco started in the 18th century silver mines in Mexico. Back then, a taco was just some paper wrapped around gunpowder.

Taco Bell has tried to enter the Mexican market twice, failing both times, even after branding their food “American” food.

In 1914, the first recipes for tacos were put into an English cookbook.

Today’s Pinterest Board : Foodimentary

Today’s Food History

1925 Teaching the theory of evolution became illegal in Tennessee.
1984 A section of Central Park is renamed ‘Strawberry Fields’ to honor John Lennon.
1994 Due to bad harvests, there is a shortage of Japanese grown rice. Japan’s Imperial Palace begins serving royal meals to the Emperor & Empress with rice grown in the U.S., China and Thailand.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed in the Egyptian desert, having completed the 1st ‘Around the World’ hot air balloon flight. According to the BBC, they carried fresh food, including bread, cheese and pre-cooked steaks to last for 6 or 7 days, after which they made due with dried foods such as cereals and powdered milk. The flight began in the Swiss Alps, took 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes, and covered 29,056 non-stop miles.

Categories: Food Holidays, March Food Holidays

Tagged: crunchy taco day, five food finds, foodimentary, john-bryan hopkins, national crunchy taco day, original social media foodie, social media foodie, taco bell history, today in food history

March 30 is National Turkey Neck Soup Day

Here are today’s five thing to know about Turkey Neck Soup:

The turkey is named “Tom”, because Ben Franklin always teased “Tom” Jefferson for not picking the turkey as the national bird
The turkey was never a staple for native Americans because they were seen as weak. They were only eaten in times of famine.
Turkey chicks have a tendency to drown on rainwater. They become curious about the phenomenon above their heads, and look until they drown.
“Legend has it” in the 1800’s they cross-bred turkey and chicken into “turken”.
All major documents signed in the founding of the United States used the quill (feather) of a turkey for their signing.

Fun Fact:

An old American way to celebrate the end of Winter and the promise of Spring.

Turkey Neck Soup is pretty much what it says – a soup whose stock is made from turkey necks.

The tough neck meat helps make soups richer.

Today’s Pinterest Board : Foodimentary

Today’s Food History

1843 Napoleon E. Guerin received the first U.S. patent for an egg incubator.
1858 Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil with an eraser attached.
1868 The Pullman Palace Car Company introduced the first railroad dining car.
1911 RIP Ellen Swallow Richards, one of the founders of the home economics movement in the U.S.
1945 Eric ‘Slowhand’ Clapton, singer & songwriter was born. A member of the rock groups the Yardbirds and Cream.
1987 ‘Sunflowers’ by Vincent Van Gogh is sold to a Japanese buyer for $39.9 million. There has been some controversy on whether it is possibly a fake. During the 1990s more than 2 dozen Van Gogh’s have been labeled as fakes or copies. Vincent Van Gogh was also born on this day in 1853.

Categories: Food Holidays, March Food Holidays

Tagged: daily quote, eric slowhand, five food finds, food, Food Holiday, foodimentary, fun, home economics movement, hyman lipman, john-bryan hopkins, life, original social media foodie, pullman palace car company, quill feather, social media foodie, turkey neck soup, vincent van gogh

March 30 is National Turkey Neck Soup Day

Interesting Food Facts about Turkey Neck Soup

The turkey is named “Tom”, because Ben Franklin always teased “Tom” Jefferson for not picking the turkey as the national bird
The turkey was never a staple for native Americans because they were seen as weak. They were only eaten in times of famine.
Turkey chicks have a tendency to drown on rainwater. They become curious about the phenomenon above their heads, and look until they drown.
“Legend has it” in the 1800’s they cross-bred turkey and chicken into “turken”.
All major documents signed in the founding of the United States used the quill (feather) of a turkey for their signing.

Fun Fact:

An old American way to celebrate the end of Winter and the promise of Spring.

Turkey Neck Soup is pretty much what it says – a soup whose stock is made from turkey necks.

The tough neck meat helps make soups richer.

Today’s Food History

1843 Napoleon E. Guerin received the first U.S. patent for an egg incubator.
1858 Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil with an eraser attached.
1868 The Pullman Palace Car Company introduced the first railroad dining car.
1911 RIP Ellen Swallow Richards, one of the founders of the home economics movement in the U.S.
1945 Eric ‘Slowhand’ Clapton, singer & songwriter was born. A member of the rock groups the Yardbirds and Cream.
1987 ‘Sunflowers’ by Vincent Van Gogh is sold to a Japanese buyer for $39.9 million. There has been some controversy on whether it is possibly a fake. During the 1990s more than 2 dozen Van Gogh’s have been labeled as fakes or copies. Vincent Van Gogh was also born on this day in 1853.

Categories: Food Holidays, March Food Holidays

March 21 is National Crunchy Taco Day

Interesting Food Facts about Taco Bell

Founder, Glenn Bell, first opened the chain “Del Tacos,” a hot dog and taco franchise.
He was the first to fry his taco shells in advance. Before then, they were fried on demand.
They were the first fast food chain to have move tie-in promotions.
In 1962, a tacos only cost 19 cents.
Even though the 1990 Chihuahua was an advertising phenomenon, taco sales actually went down during that period.

Fun Fact:

The word taco started in the 18th century silver mines in Mexico. Back then, a taco was just some paper wrapped around gunpowder.

Taco Bell has tried to enter the Mexican market twice, failing both times, even after branding their food “American” food.

In 1914, the first recipes for tacos were put into an English cookbook.

Today’s Food History

1925 Teaching the theory of evolution became illegal in Tennessee.
1984 A section of Central Park is renamed ‘Strawberry Fields’ to honor John Lennon.
1994 Due to bad harvests, there is a shortage of Japanese grown rice. Japan’s Imperial Palace begins serving royal meals to the Emperor & Empress with rice grown in the U.S., China and Thailand.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed in the Egyptian desert, having completed the 1st ‘Around the World’ hot air balloon flight. According to the BBC, they carried fresh food, including bread, cheese and pre-cooked steaks to last for 6 or 7 days, after which they made due with dried foods such as cereals and powdered milk. The flight began in the Swiss Alps, took 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes, and covered 29,056 non-stop miles.

Categories: Food Holidays, March Food Holidays

Tagged: crunchy taco day, five food finds, foodimentary, john-bryan hopkins, national crunchy taco day, original social media foodie, social media foodie, taco bell history, today in food history

February 28 is National Chocolate Souffle Day

John-Bryan Hopkins

: MyRecipes.com

February 28

is

National Chocolate Souffle Day

**Five things you should know about**

Chocolate Souffle

Supposedly, the first recipe for soufflé appeared in Vincent La Chapelle’s Le Cuisinier Moderne (1742).
The word soufflé first appeared in English in Louis Ude’s The French Cook, 1813.
By 1845 was so commonly accepted that in Eliza Acton’s Modern Cookery (1845) a recipe for soufflé was included as just another recipe.
Due to soufflés’ tendency to collapse quickly upon removal from the oven, the media frequently depicts the dessert in sitcoms, cartoons, children’s programs and movies as a source of humor.
Another kind of dish entirely is soufflé potatoes, which are puffed-up sautéed potato slices, traditionally served with a chateaubriand steak.

On This Day in Food History…

1553 Michel de Montaigne was born. French essayist. There are a few of his quotes about food and dining listed on the Food Reference website. (“A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.”)

1935 At the DuPont Corporation, Dr. Wallce Hume Carothers invented nylon. A patent was issued in 1937, and nylon stockings soon followed.

1979‘Mr. Ed’, the talking horse, died. This was not the horse who actually starred on the TV show, but another horse who did publicity work as Mr. Ed. The original Mr. Ed (Bamboo Harvester) died in 1970.

2006 Chicago’s oldest restaurant, the 107 year old Berghoff Restaurant closed today.

2009 Reduced demand for butter & cheese and falling milk prices are forcing dairy farmers in the U.S. to sell hundreds of thousands of dairy cows to be slaughtered for meat. Estimates are that more than 15% of the 9.3 million dairy cows may be sold for meat.

Categories: February Food Holidays, Food Holidays

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