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January 2nd is National Cream Puff Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

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Here are today’s five food finds about cream puffs:

The cream puff is also know as “profiterole.”

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While the origin is obscure, the cream puff was introduced in France by Caterina de Medici, the wife of Henry II of France.

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The “cream puff” first appeared on US restaurant menus since 1851.

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The world’s largest cream puff weighed 125.5 pounds.

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The Wisconsin State Fair is known for producing cream puffs since 1924.

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Today’s Food History

  • 1923 Secretary of the U.S. Dept of Interior, Albert Fall, resigns due to public outrage over the Teapot Dome scandal.
  • 1975 Working with Canadian zoologist Freud Urquhart, amateur naturalist Kenneth C. Brugger discovered the winter home of the Monarch butterfly in the mountains of central Mexico. The refuge he found was only about 200 square meters and contained about 20 million butterflies.
  • 1983 ‘Maneater’ by Daryl Hall & John Oates is #1 on the charts.
  • 1990 Campbell’s Soup introduces Cream of Broccoli soup. It becomes their most successful new soup in 55 years.
  • 2005 H. David Dalquist, the creator of the aluminum Bundt Pan in 1950, died in Minnesota at the age of 86.

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Tagged: National Cream Puff Day

January 2nd is National Cream Puff Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

High-res version

Here are today’s five food finds about cream puffs:

The cream puff is also know as “profiterole.”

 

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While the origin is obscure, the cream puff was introduced in France by Caterina de Medici, the wife of Henry II of France.

 

catherine_de_medicis

 

The “cream puff” first appeared on US restaurant menus since 1851.

 

cream-puff-fun-facts

 

The world’s largest cream puff weighed 125.5 pounds.

 

112421_largest_cream_puff_wisconsin

 

 

The Wisconsin State Fair is known for producing cream puffs since 1924.

 

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Today’s Food History

  • 1923 Secretary of the U.S. Dept of Interior, Albert Fall, resigns due to public outrage over the Teapot Dome scandal.
  • 1975 Working with Canadian zoologist Freud Urquhart, amateur naturalist Kenneth C. Brugger discovered the winter home of the Monarch butterfly in the mountains of central Mexico. The refuge he found was only about 200 square meters and contained about 20 million butterflies.
  • 1983 ‘Maneater’ by Daryl Hall & John Oates is #1 on the charts.
  • 1990 Campbell’s Soup introduces Cream of Broccoli soup. It becomes their most successful new soup in 55 years.
  • 2005 H. David Dalquist, the creator of the aluminum Bundt Pan in 1950, died in Minnesota at the age of 86.

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