March 7th is National Cereal Day! / #NationalCerealDay

John-Bryan Hopkins

Interesting Food Facts about Cereal

The word cereal comes from Cerealia, the name of ancient Roman ceremonies that honored Ceres, the goddess of grain.

The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal, Granula was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson.

Cereal is often eaten cold with with milk, yogurt, and sometimes fruit, but may be eaten dry.

Astronauts from Apollo 11 ate cereal during their mission to the moon. The cereal with fruit was compressed into cubes because the lack of gravity made bowls of milk impossible.

The average American eats 160 bowls of cereal each year.

Today’s Food History

1804 John Wedgwood, the son of Josiah Wedgwood of pottery fame, founded the Royal Horticultural Society.

1849 Luther Burbank was born. American horticulturist, he developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables, including the Burbank Potato (1873), the Shasta Daisy, over 100 varieties of plums and prunes and 10 varieties of berries.

1897 Dr. John Kellogg served corn flakes for the first time to his patients at his hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. They wouldn’t be sold commercially until 1906.

1914 The Coca Cola Bottler’s Association was formed.

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March 6th is National Oreo Day! / #NationalOreoDay

John-Bryan Hopkins

Five Food Facts about Oreos

In 1912, Nabisco had a new idea for a cookie – two chocolate disks with a creme filling in between.

The first Oreo cookie looked very similar to the Oreo cookie of today, with only a slight difference in the design on the chocolate disks.

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Little did they know that the Oreo cookie would become the largest selling cookie of all time.

5 Generic chocolate sandwich cookies. Image shot 2005. Exact date unknown.

The origin of the name Oreo is unknown, but there are many theories. ‘Or’ means golden in French or the Greek word ‘Oreo’, meaning beautiful, nice or well done.

Lawsuit Seeks To Ban Oreo Cookies In California

Starting in January 2006, Oreo cookies replaced the trans fat in the cookie with non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.

On This Day in Food History…

1899 Aspirin was patented by Felix Hoffman of the German company, Bayer. Aspirin was originally developed by Charles Frederic Gerhardt in 1853, but he never thought it important enough to patent.

1912 Nabisco debuts the Oreo cookie. The Oreo is considered largest selling cookie of all time.

1930 Retail frozen foods go on sale for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts. Various fruits, vegetables, meat and fish were offered for sale. Clarence Birdseye had developed the method used to successfully freeze foods on a commercial scale.

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May 31st is National Macaroon Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy Macaroon Day!

Here are today’s five food facts about Macaroons:

The original macaroon was a “small sweet cake consisting largely of ground almonds” similar to Italian amaretti.

The English word macaroon and French macaron come from the Italian maccarone or maccherone.

Most recipes call for egg whites (usually whipped to stiff peaks), with ground or powdered seeds, generally almonds or nuts.

The Scottish macaroon is a sweet confection with a thick velvety centre covered in chocolate and topped with roasted coconut.

In North America, the coconut macaroon is the better known variety.

Today’s Food History

1744 Richard Lovell Edgeworth died. An Anglo-Irish inventor, among his many inventions and innovations were a turnip cutter, various improvements in agricultural machines, and a velocipede.
1790 The first U.S. copyright law was signed by George Washington.
1836 The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel opened in New York City.
1884 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg applied for a patent for ‘flaked cereal’ (corn flakes). It was his brother Will Keith Kellogg who became rich & famous by marketing the new cereal commercially. 1892 Lea & Perrins label was trademarked.
1974 Adelle Davis died. Nutritionist, and author of ‘Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit.’ She promoted many theories that have been labeled as unfounded and dangerous by the medical community.
1980 Cook’s magazine begins publication. Christopher Kimball is the publisher.
1983 Jack Dempsey died. Regarded as one of the greatest boxers, he held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. He then became a successful restaurateur in New York City.

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May 30th is National Mint Julep Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Mint Julep Day!🥃🌱

Here are today’s five facts about Mint Juleps:

A mint julep is traditionally made with four ingredients: mint leaf, bourbon, sugar, and water.

Traditionally, spearmint is the mint of choice used in Southern states, and in Kentucky in particular.
In the use of sugar and mint, it is similar to the mojito.

Proper preparation of the cocktail is commonly debated, as methods may vary considerably from one bartender to another.

The mint julep may be considered as one of a loosely associated family of drinks called “smashes” (the brandy smash is another example, as well as the mojito), in which fresh mint and other ingredients are muddled or crushed in preparation for flavoring the finished drink.

Today’s Food History

1783 The first daily American newspaper was published in Philadelphia, ‘The Pennsylvania Evening Post’
1848 William Young of Baltimore, Maryland received the first U.S. patent for an ice cream freezer.
1899 George Cook patented an automatic fishing device.
1908 Mel Blanc (Melvin Jerome Blanc) was born. Blanc was a voice actor for Warner Bros. (and other) cartoon characters. Some of the characters he ‘voiced’ include Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Sylvester the Cat.
1994 Baron Marcel Bich died. French inventor of the Bic Pen in 1949. (Pens are needed to write recipes and menus).

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May 28th is National Brisket Day #MemorialDay

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Brisket Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Brisket:

Brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest of beef or veal.

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The beef brisket is one of the eight beef primal cuts.

The brisket muscles include the superficial and deep pectorals.

As cattle do not have collar bones, these muscles support about 60% of the body weight of standing/moving cattle.

This requires a significant amount of connective tissue, so the resulting meat must be cooked correctly to tenderize the connective tissue.

Today’s Food History

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1892 The Sierra Club is formed in San Francisco for nature conservation.

1897 Jell-O was introduced.

1910 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist, was born in Linden, Texas.

1944 Gladys Knight was born. (Gladys Knight & the Pips) A ‘Pip’ is the small seed of a fruit, like those in an apple.

1999 After 22 years of controversial restoration, Leonardo de Vinci’s masterpiece ‘The Last Supper’ is returned to public display.

2003 The first cloned horse was born in a natural delivery. Cloned horses are currently banned from racing.

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May 27th is National Grape Popsicle Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Gras Popsicle Day!

Here are five facts about Popsicles:

Popsicles were originally marketed as “a frozen drink on a stick”.
Popsicles originally came in seven flavors thought to be root beer, cherry, lemon, orange, banana, grape, and watermelon, but there is no official record of Epperson’s original flavors.

The most popular Popsicle flavor is Cherry.

More than two billion Popsicles are sold each year.
The dual Popsicle featuring two sticks and one Popsicle that could be split in half was introduced during the Great Depression as a way to split the treat across two children for the same cost.

Today’s Food History

1901 Conrad Arnold Elvehjem Born. American biochemist who identified nicotinic acid as a vitamin (one of the B vitamins), and that a deficiency on nicotinic acid resulted in the disease pellagra.
1907 Rachel Louise Carson was born; author of ‘Silent Spring.’ An American biologist, the book was concerned with the dangers of environmental pollution, especially DDT
1930 Richard G. Drew of St. Paul, Minnesota patented transparent cellophane adhesive tape. He worked out a deal with 3M to market this ‘Scotch’ tape. What did we ever do without it?
1933 The first automatic soda fountain dispenser is introduced by Coca-Cola.
1975 British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was born. Known as the ‘Naked Chef,’ on his BBC TV cooking shows (the name refers to simplicity, not nudity). He has had several TV shows, ‘The Naked Chef,’ ‘Return of the Naked Chef,’ ‘Happy Days with the Naked Chef,’ ‘Jamie’s Kitchen,’ ‘Return to Jamie’s Kitchen,’ and ‘Oliver’s Twist.’ He has also written several cookbooks.

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May 26th National Blueberry Cheesecake Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food facts about Cheesecake:

Cheesecake is a dessert formed of a topping made with soft, fresh cheese upon a base made from biscuit, pastry or sponge. The topping is frequently sweetened with sugar and flavored or topped with a puree or compote of fruit.

Savory cheesecakes also exist, served sometimes as hors d’oeuvre or with accompanying salads. Despite their name, cheesecakes are technically tarts; the word ‘cake’ was formerly applied to a much broader category of foods than it is today.

Cato the Elder’s De Agri Cultura includes recipes for two cakes for religious uses: libum and placenta. Of the two placenta is most like modern cheesecakes having a crust that is separately prepared and baked.

Cheesecakes can be broadly categorised into two basic types – baked and unbaked – and each comes in a variety of styles determined by region.
Japanese-style cheesecake relies upon the emulsification of cornstarch and eggs to make a smooth flan-like texture and almost plasticine appearance.

Today’s Food History

1923 James Arness was born. Best known as Marshal Matt Dillon on the TV series ‘Gunsmoke,’ he also played the creature in the 1951 movie ‘The Thing from Another World.’ The creature was a vegetable based alien life form, a “super intellectual carrot.”
1955 Morimoto Masaharu was born in Hiroshima, Japan. Masaharu is a well known Japanese Chef, and was the last Japanese Iron Chef on the TV show, Iron Chef (late 1990s). He now has his own restaurant, Morimoto in Philadelphia.
1971 Don Maclean recorded ‘American Pie’.
1979‘Reunited’ by Peaches & Herb is #1 on the charts
1999 R.I.P. Waldo Lonsbury Semon. Semon was an American Inventor who is credited with the invention of Vinyl. Vinyl is the 2nd most used plastic in the world. Semon held over 100 patents.

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May 25th is National Wine Day! #NationalWineDay

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food facts about Wine:

The longest recorded champagne cork flight was 177 feet and 9 inches, four feet from level ground at Woodbury Vineyards in New York State.

Thomas Jefferson helped stock the wine cellars of the first five U.S. presidents and was very partial to fine Bordeaux and Madeira.

Chilling tones down the sweetness of wine. If a red wine becomes too warm, it may lose some of its fruity flavor.

The Irish believe that fairies are extremely fond of good wine.

Foot treading of grapes is still used in producing a small quantity of the best port wines.

Today’s Food History

1789 R.I.P. Anders Dahl. A renowned Swedish botanist, the Dahlia flower was named for him.
1877 Minnesota’s $1.00 per bushel bounty on grasshopper eggs expires. The state had experienced a 4 year grasshopper (locust) plague.
1882 The first frozen mutton from New Zealand arrived in Britain
1973 Wrexham Asda supermarket opened in the U.K.
1986 Six million Americans participate in ‘Hand Across America’ by holding hands and singing across 4,150 miles of road in support of the hungry and homeless.
2007 Coca Cola created a 3,000 gallon, 15 foot high ice cream float with Vanilla Coke and ice cream, and set a new world record for the largest ice cream float. The float was certified as drinkable by health inspectors, but it was disposed of by a garbage company. Coke also held the previous record from 1998 with a 2,085 gallon float.

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May 24th is National Escargot Day !

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food facts about Escargot:

Escargot – French – An edible snail, especially one prepared as an appetizer or entree.

The French consume 40,000 metric tons of snails each year.

Heliculture is the science of growing snails for food.

Snails have been eaten as food since at least ancient Roman times. Apicius, the author of the oldest surviving cookbook (1st century B.C – 2 century A.D.) has a recipe for snails in his cookbook.

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Restaurants serve about 1 billion snails annually.

Today’s Food History

1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born. He developed the Fahrenheit temperature scale, and invented the mercury thermometer.
1883 R.I.P. Gabriel Gustav Valentin. This German-Swiss physiologist was the first to discover the digestive activity of pancreatic juice. (Oh Boy!).
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened. It took 14 years to build at a cost of $18 million, and was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
1893 The Anti-Saloon League was founded by Howard H. Russell at Oberlin, Ohio.
1929 The first Marx Brothers film, ‘Cocoanuts’ premiered.
1941 Robert Allen Zimmerman was born.
1945 The first Food-O-Mat was installed in a Grand Union Company store in New Jersey
1976 In Paris, two California wines won top honors at a blind wine tasting by the best of France’s wine experts. The French were shocked, and the wine world was changed forever.
2007 R.I.P. Kelly Jo Dowd. She was one of the original ‘Hooters’ Girls’ at the first Hooters’ restaurant which opened in 1983 in Clearwater Florida.

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May 23rd is National Taffy Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food facts about Taffy:

Salt water taffy was “invented” in Atlantic City in 1883.

Modern technology allows confectioners to produce 1,000 pieces of taffy a minute.

In one hour enough pieces of taffy are made to cover one third of the length of Atlantic City (about 1.3 miles).

The three most popular taffy flavors sold by Sweet Candy Company are peppermint, cinnamon and chocolate.
America celebrates National Taffy Day May 23rd.

Today’s Food History

1774 Residents of Chestertown, Maryland react to news of the Boston Tea Party by staging a similar protest, dumping a shipment of tea into the Chester River.
1868 R.I.P. Kit Carson, American frontiersman. His last words were supposedly “Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili.”
1922 Thomas Edison patented a method for making metal foils.
1960 R.I.P. Georges Claude. A French engineer, he invented the neon light, commonly used for signs.
1968‘Yummy, Yummy, Yummy’ by the Ohio Express is #1 on the charts.

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May 22nd is National Vanilla Pudding Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food facts about Pudding:

The Fortress hotel in Galle, Sri Lanka, is charging $14,500 a serving of the world’s most expensive pudding, which is called “The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence”.
Hasty pudding, originally a British dish, this pudding could be made on very short notice. Ingredients vary, but it was basically a sweetened porridge made from flour, tapioca or oatmeal and milk. The term originated in the late 16th century.

In Colonial America cornmeal was cheaper and more readily available, so here, Hasty Pudding was a cornmeal mush (cornmeal added to boiling water and cooked) with molasses, honey, brown sugar or maple syrup and milk.
There are both savory and dessert versions of this dish.
Meat pudding would be a savory example of a pudding dish.

Today’s Food History

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1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born. Creator of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes would go for days without food while working on a case.
1892 Dr. Washington Sheffeld invented the collapsible metal toothpaste tube.
1894 African American inventor S. Newson patented an “oil heater or cooker.”
1931 Canned rattlesnake goes on sale. Packed by George K. End of Arcadia, Florida. Not quite as big a hit as Spam.
1934 R.I.P.David Wesson. An American chemist who developed a method to make cotton seed oil edible. Cotton seed oil has almost no taste, so it allows the flavors of other foods to come through. It is used in the manufacture of margarine, salad dressings, in commercially fried foods, and of course, Wesson Oil.
1946 The Culinary Institute of America is founded.

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May 21st is National Strawberries & Cream Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food finds about Strawberries:

Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside.

The ancient Romans believed that strawberries alleviated symptoms of melancholy, fainting, all inflammations, fevers, throat infections, kidney stones, bad breath, attacks of gout, and diseases of the blood, liver and spleen.

Strawberries are the first fruit to ripen in the spring.

Over 53 percent of seven to nine-year-olds picked strawberries as their favorite fruit.

Strawberries Dessert Red Fruits Gluttony Fruit

In a test, subjects who ate nitrate rich foods like strawberries, before exercising burned 100 more calories than those who did not.

Cold Strawberries Ice Sweet Dish Strawberry Cream

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1923 Delmonico’s Restaurant closed its doors, a victim of Prohibition. (Some sources list October 4, 1918).

1987 Archie Fairley Carr died. An American biologist and authority on turtles. His extensive studies and conservation efforts helped to increase turtle populations around the world.

2009 After months of numerous mechanical failures, a new recycling system was activated on the international space station. The new system recycles astronauts urine and sweat into drinking water.

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May 20th is National Quiche Lorraine Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Quiche Lorraine!

Here are today’s five food finds about Quiche:

Quiche is a savoury , custard pie usually filled with cheese, meat, seafood or vegetables.
The word “quiche” come from French, which originally borrowed the word from Lorraine Franconian “Küeche” (meaning “cake”).

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Quiche originated in Germany, although today it is known as a classic French dish.

The original recipe for quiche lorraine was an open pie with a filling of custard with smoked bacon or lardons and cheese was not added till later .
The world largest quiche was made by Chef Alain Marcotullio. It based for over 18 hours and fed more than 125 people.

Today’s Food History

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1506 Christopher Columbus, explorer, died.

1799 Honore de Balzac Born. French author. Balzac would lock himself away during creative bursts, drinking coffee and eating only fruit and eggs. When he finally took a break, he was known to consume huge quantities of food. One report recalls that at the Véry restaurant he ate “a hundred Ostend oysters, twelve cutlets of salt-meadow mutton, a duck with turnips, two partridges and a Normandy sole,” not to mention the desserts, fruit and liqueurs he also consumed.

1810 On this day Dolly Madison, wife of president James Madison, supposedly served the first ice cream at the White House, for a reception.

1862 President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. It opened millions of acres Western land to settlers.

1874 Jeans with copper rivets are patented by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis.

1875 The International Bureau of Weights and Measures was created.

1884 L. Blue patented a hand corn sheller.

1892 George Sampson received a patent for a clothes dryer.

1913 William Hewlett was born. Founder with David Packard of Hewlett Packard Company. Before they became famous for computers and printers etc., some of their early inventions were an automatic urinal flusher and a weight loss shock machine!

1961 The record Jewfish weighed 680 pounds and was caught in Fernandina Beach, Florida.

1993 The last episode of ‘Cheers’ aired on TV.

2005 Governor Jeb Bush signed a bill making the orange the official State Fruit of Florida. The orange blossom and orange juice have been previously declared the official state flower and official state beverage.

2009Hot Dog Wars: Sara Lee (Ball Park Franks) sued Kraft Foods (Oscar Mayer Jumbo Beef Franks) over claims that Oscar Mayer franks are better than Ball Park Franks.

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May 19th National Devil’s Food Cake Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

National Devil’s Food Cake Day 🍫 + 🍰 = 😈😂

Here are today’s five food finds about Devil’s Food Cake:

Devil’s food cake is considered a counterpart to the white or yellow angel food cake.
Devil’s food cake is generally more moist and airy than other chocolate cakes, and often uses cocoa as opposed to chocolate for the flavor as well as coffee.

Devil’s food cake was introduced in the United States in the early 20th century with the recipe in print as early as 1905.

A similar cake, the red velvet cake, is closely linked to a devil’s food cake, and in some turn of the century cookbooks the two names may have been interchangeable.
Devil’s food cake incorporates butter (or a substitute), egg whites, flour (while some chocolate cakes are flourless) and less egg than other chocolate cakes.

Today’s Food History

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1834 Catharine Furbish was born. An American botanist, she spent almost 40 years traveling and painting watercolors of the flora of the state of Maine.

1910 The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet and nothing happened. There had been dire predictions that everyone would die, and many hucksters sold ‘comet pills’ to counter the effects of the ‘comet gas.’

1962 Marilyn Monroe sings ‘Happy Birthday’ at a birthday salute to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden.

2006 Nicole Belinda Franzen Reese was chosen as the 59th ‘Alice in Dairyland’ by the Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. She will be the spokesperson for the states agriculture industry.

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May 18th is National Cheese Souffle Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Cheese Soufflé Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Soufflé:

A souffle is essentially a simple white sauce enriched with egg yolk. Stiff egg whites are folded right into the mixture. At this point, you can add whatever flavor you like: cheese, vegetables, chocolate or fruit.

The secret to a great souffle is to beat the egg whites into stiff white peak consistency and to fold them carefully into the sauce to keep as much air in the mixture as possible.

Savory souffles are often too light for a main course, but the addition of chicken and spinach here bolsters this into a substantial main course. When you break into it with your fork, the seductive aroma of cheese, chicken and spinach pours out. It’s elegant, airy and fluffy.

The secret to success is making sure your timing is just right. So plan ahead carefully; figure out what you will be serving first — such as a salad or soup — and time the souffle to go into the oven as you sit down for your first course.

You can wait for a souffle, but a souffle waits for no one. You don’t want to serve a deflated souffle.

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Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1808 Elijah Craig died. A Baptist minister in Kentucky, he is an important figure in the invention of Bourbon Whiskey. He ran a paper mill and started a distillery in 1789. Legend credits him with being the first to use new charred oak barrels to age corn whiskey, which is a key step in making bourbon.

1935 Allan Burns was born. Screenwriter and producer, co-creator of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. He also created the character Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch for Quaker Oats ‘Cap’n Crunch’ breakfast cereal.

1955 Chow Yun-Fat was born. Internationally famous Hong Kong actor.

1995 Elisha Cook Jr. died. A well known character actor in films and TV. I remember him mainly in his role as Wilmer, in the ‘Maltese Falcon’.

2001 Hong Kong ordered more than 1 million chickens and other poultry killed to halt the spread of another bird flu epidemic.

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May 15th is National Chocolate Chip Day ! #NationalChocolateChipDay

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Chocolate Chip Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Chocolate Chips:

Originally, chocolate chips were made of semi-sweet chocolate.

Chocolate chips were invented in 1933 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe.

The cookies were a huge success, and Wakefield reached an agreement with Nestlé to add her recipe to the chocolate bar’s packaging in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate.

Initially, Nestlé included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars, but in 1939 they started selling the chocolate in chip (or “morsel”) form.

The Nestlé brand Toll House cookies is named for the inn.

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Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1923 Listerine was registered as a trademark.
1930 Mrs. Ellen Church, a registered nurse, became the world’s first airline stewardess (flight attendant). The 11 passengers were flying on a United Airlines tri-motor Boeing 80A from San Francisco to Cheyenne, Wyoming. The meal was chicken, fruit salad and rolls.
1940 Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware.
1989 Hershey’s reduces the size of the Hershey bar to 1.55 ounces. The price remains 40 cents.
1991 The famous Paris cooking school, L’Ecole de Cordon Bleu, opens a branch in Tokyo, Japan.
2007 Karen Hess, culinary historian, died. Some of her books were ‘The Taste of America‘ (1977) and ‘Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection‘ (1992). She also annotated Mary Randolph’s ‘Virginia Housewife‘ (1983).

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May 13th is National Apple Pie Day!🍎+🥧=😋

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food finds about Apple Pie:

The first printed reference to apple pie was in 1589 by Robert Greene in ‘Arcadia’: “Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.”

Tradition has it that Yale College served apple pie at every supper for more than 100 years

There is an old saying: ‘Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.’

Americas favorite dessert, so much so that some things are said to be as American as apple pie.

McDonald’s added an apple pie dessert to its menu in 1968.

Today’s Food History

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1637 I am not totally confident with the month and day, but supposedly, Cardinal Richelieu ‘created’ the table knife when he had the points rounded on all knives to be used at his table. Presumably so no one could stab him.

1884 Cyrus Hall McCormick died. He is generally credited with the development of the mechanical reaper

1958 Velcro was trademarked.

1993 The Red Hot Chili Peppers play on the Simpsons TV show.

2008 Robert Mondavi died at age 94. A leading Napa Valley vintner who helped establish California wines among the best in the world.

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Who’s in? May 11th is National “Eat What You Want” Day !🍌🥦🥑🥓🍔🌮🍕🍨🎂

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National “Eat What You Want” Day !

According to Forbes, the hot food trends are:

1. Vegetarian Comfort Food

2. Artisan Butcher Shops with Restuarants

3. Breakfast

4. No more kale!

5. Food Bowls

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1838 Thomas Andrew Knight died. British horticulturist and botanist who experimented with geotropism, phototropism and heliotropism.

1886 W. Marshall patented a ‘grain binder.’

1934 The Dust Bowl. One of the worst dust storms ever to hit the Great Plains occurred. It lasted 2 days and the area lost massive amounts of top soil.

1946 The first CARE packages for survivors of WW II in Europe arrive at Le Havre, France. (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe).

1947 B.F. Goodrich announced the development of the tubeless tire.

2002 Joseph Bonanno, a former Mafia boss known as ‘Joe Bananas,’ died in Tucson, Arizona at age 97.

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Yum! May 10th National Liver and Onions Day

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Liver & Onions Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Liver and Onions:

Liver and onions is a favorite in the UK and in Germany, where it is usually eaten along with boiled or mashed potatoes.
Lamb’s liver is the usual choice in the UK and is often accompanied by fried bacon.

In the French traditional recipe the liver is fried with butter and lard.
In Catalan cuisine olive oil is used, instead of butter, and fried garlic is added to the mixture.

In the USA, liver and onions as a dish once enjoyed widespread popularity and could usually be found at family diners and American home-style restaurants. This meal is currently more common to the cuisines of the southern and upper mid-western style foods.

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1566 Leonhard Fuchs died. He was a German botanist who compiled the first modern, organized listing of plants and botanical terms, ‘Historia Stirpium’ in 1542. The plant and the color fuchsia were named for him.

1818 Paul Revere died. A silversmith and American Revolutionary folk hero, he also made surgical instruments and false teeth.

1850 Sir Thomas Johnston Lipton, grocer and tea merchant, was born.

1898 The first vending machine law was passed in Omaha, Nebraska.

1920 John Wesley Hyatt died. He developed the process for making celluloid, the first synthetic plastic. He also invented a water purifying system and a sugar cane mill. 2010 A 10 year-old 3rd grade student in Texas was given 1 week’s detention for being in possession of a candy bar at lunch time. The candy bar was also confiscated.

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May 9th is National Shrimp Day !🍤🍤

John-Bryan Hopkins

Here are today’s five food finds about Shrimp:

The pistol shrimp can deliver an explosive attack hotter than the surface of the sun and loud enough to rupture a human ear drum.

Every shrimp is actually born male, and some develop into females.

Some shrimp are actually capable of glowing in the dark.

Shrimp can vary in size from 1/2 inch to 12 inches.

In some areas, shrimp served with the head still attached is considered a delicacy.

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1785 The beer-pump handle was patented by Joseph Bramah.

1845 Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was born. A Swedish scientist and inventor. Among his inventions was the centrifugal cream separator and a vacuum milking machine.

1914 C. W. Post (Charles William) died. 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).

1992 The record brown trout weighed over 40 pounds and was caught in Arkansas.

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May 8th is National Coconut Cream Pie Day!🥥

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Here are today’s five food finds about Coconuts:

The coconut is not a nut. In fact, it isn’t a fruit either. It is a seed!

Coconut oils accelerate the metabolism. Of course, if you put them in pie you may not notice the effect.

The sailors aboard Vasco de Gama’s ships gave the coconut its name. They called it “Coco”, named after a grimacing face or hobgoblin.

The water from the coconut has traditionally been used when commercial IV solutions of plasma have not been available.

Coconut oils also contain four growth hormones, called cytokinins, and three sets of chromosomes – or triploids – that help the development of many organisms.

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1842 Emil Christian Hansen was born. He was a Danish botanist who developed new methods to culture yeast. He revolutionized the beer industry, and proved that there are different species of yeast. He refused to patent the method, but instead made it available for free to other brewers.

1855 John Gates was born. Gates was an inventor, promoter and barbed wire manufacturer.

1886 Coca Cola is first sold to the public at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.

1968 Laurence M. Klauber died. Klauber was an American herpetologist and inventor who was a rattlesnake expert. If you want to know anything or everything about rattlesnakes, see his book “Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories and Influence on Mankind.”

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May 7th is National Lamb Day!🐑

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Lamb Day!

Here are today’s five food facts about Lamb:

Lamb, mutton, and hogget (UK, New Zealand and Australia) are the meat of domestic sheep. The meat of a sheep in its first year is lamb; that of a juvenile sheep older than 1 year is hogget; and the meat of an adult sheep is mutton.

On average, a three ounce serving of lamb has only 175 calories and meets the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) definition for lean. According to FDA guidelines, lean meat has less than 10 grams of fat, less than 4.5 grams of saturated fat, and less than 95 milligrams of cholesterol per 100 grams or 3.5 ounces.

The meat of a lamb is taken from the animal between one month and one year old, with a carcase (carcass in American English) weight of between 5.5 and 30 kilograms (12 and 65 lbs).
This meat generally is more tender than that from older sheep and appears more often on tables in some Western countries.
Lamb should be stored in the refrigerator or freezer immediately after purchasing. Refrigerate fresh lamb at 40 degrees or below.

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1660 Isaack B. Fubine of The Hague received a patent for macaroni.
(This fact is reported on many sites on the internet. No one has any further information listed, and I am in doubt as to its accuracy).

1873 Salmon Portland Chase died. He was Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and later Chief Justice.

1947 The ‘Kraft Television Theater’ premiered on NBC TV

1953 The world record swordfish was caught in Chile: 1,182 pounds.

1987 Shelly Long, who played Diane Chambers, makes her final appearance as a regular on ‘Cheers.’

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May 6th is National Crepe Suzette Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Suzette Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Crepe Suzette:

The most common way to make Crêpe Suzette is to pour liqueur (usually Grand Marnier) over a freshly-cooked crêpe with sugar and light it.
This will make the alcohol in the liqueur evaporate, resulting in a fairly thick, caramelised sauce. In a restaurant, a Crêpe Suzette is often prepared in a chafing dish in full view of the guests.

The origin of the dish and its name is somewhat disputed. One claim is that the dish was created out of a mistake made by a fourteen year-old assistant waiter Henri Charpentier in 1895 at the Maitre at Monte Carlo’s Café de Paris. He was preparing a dessert for the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, whose guests included a beautiful French girl named Suzette.

Different sources (like the Larousse Gastronomique) however doubt that Charpentier was serving the prince instead of the head waiter because he would have been too young.
The other claim states Crêpes Suzette was named in honor of French actress Suzanne Reichenberg (1853–1924), who worked professionally under the name Suzette.

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1806 Chapin Aaron Harris was born. He was cofounder of the first dental school in the world, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.

1833 John Deere developed the first steel plow.

1851 John Gorrie patented an ice making machine, the first U.S. patent for a mechanical refrigerator.

1862 Henry David Thoreau Died. American author, philosopher, and naturalist. Author of ‘Walden; or, Life in the Woods.’

1898 Daniel Gerber of baby food fame was born.

1905 Toots Shor, restaurateur was born.

1940 John Steinbeck receives the Pulitzer Prize for his novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath.’

1959 Icelandic gunboats fired on British trawlers during their ‘Cod War’ over fishing rights

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Olé! May 5th is National Enchilada Day

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Enchilada Day!

Here are today’s five interesting food finds about Enchiladas:

The enchilada is one of the dishes mentioned in Mexico’s first cookbook in 1831.

Enchilada is the past participle of Spanish enchilar, “to add chile pepper to”, literally to “season (or decorate) with chile.”
Enchiladas originated in Mexico, where the practice of rolling tortillas around other food dates back at least to Mayan times.

Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented a feast enjoyed by Europeans hosted by Hernán Cortés in Coyoacán, which included foods served in corn tortillas.
In the 19th century, as Mexican cuisine was being memorialized, enchiladas were mentioned in the first Mexican cookbook, El cocinero mexicano (“The Mexican Chef”), published in 1831, and in Mariano Galvan Rivera’s Diccionario de Cocina, published in 1845.

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1865 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) was born. In 1889 Bly successfully completed an attempt to beat the record of Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg to go ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’. Bly was a U.S. newspaper reporter and completed the journey in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.

1903 James Beard, culinary expert and cookbook author was born. Quote: “The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions”.

1925 John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Tennessee public school.

1926 Ann B. Davis was born. She played the role of Alice the housekeeper and cook on the TV show ‘The Brady Bunch’ (1969-1974).

1936 A patent was granted for the first bottle with a screw cap to Edward Ravenscroft of Glencoe, Illinois.

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Who’s in? May 3rd is National Chocolate Custard Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Chocolate Custard Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Chocolate Custard:

Due to the fact that it is a very fine organic powder, custard powder is EXPLOSIVE!

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of milk or cream and egg yolk.

Depending on how much egg or thickener is used, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise), to a thick pastry cream used to fill éclairs.
The most common custards are used as desserts or dessert sauces and typically include sugar and vanilla.
Custard bases may also be used for quiches and other savory foods.

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1654 A bridge in Rowley, Massachusetts began charging a toll for animals. People passed for free.
1913 William Motter Inge was born. An American playwright, he was the author of ‘Picnic’ which was also filmed in 1956.
1937 Francis Stephen Castelluccio was born. Better known as Frankie Valli of ‘The Four Seasons’ singing group.
1939 The Andrew Sisters recorded ‘Beer Barrel Polka.’
1944 Most wartime meat rationing ended in the United States.
1947 Sylvester tried to have Tweety Bird for lunch for the first time in a Warner Brothers cartoon. 1959 Passing through the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway (see April 25) the British freighter ‘Ramon de Larrinaga’ becomes the first deep draft ocean ship to enter the Duluth, Minnesota harbor.
2007 Jamison Stone, 11 years old, bagged a ‘wild hog’ that weighed in at over 1050 pounds. He was hunting on a commercial huntng preserve with his father and several guides in eastern Alabama. The animal measured 9 feet 4 inches long, nose to tail.

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Yes! May 2nd is National Chocolate Truffle Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Chocolate Truffle Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Chocolate Truffles:

According to the legend, the chocolate truffle was created by Louis Dufour in Chambery, France in 1895.

Historians believe that chocolate truffles burst in popularity because across the street from Louis Dufour’s chocolate truffle shop was the Prestat Chocolate Shop.

Roald Dahl was a big fan of Prestat truffles!

There are three types of truffles: American, European and Swiss.

The first recipe for a chocolate truffle appears in a cookbook from the 1920s.

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1878 At 7 a.m., the Washburn A flour mill in Minneapolis exploded, sending the roof 500 feet in the air. 18 workers were killed and seven other flour mills were also destroyed.
1885 Good Housekeeping magazine begins publication. Founded by Clark W. Bryan, the magazine was purchased by Hearst publishing in 1911.
1934 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev died. A Russian chemist who developed a method for large scale production of synthetic rubber. Production of polybutadiene was begun in 1932 using potatoes and limestone as raw materials.

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May 1st National Chocolate Parfait Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Chocolate Parfait Day!

Here are today’s five things to know about Chocolate:

Dark chocolate has more antioxidants than green tea and just as many as blueberries.
White chocolate really isn’t chocolate. It’s made from cocoa butter, the substance you get by pressing cocoa beans. Cocoa butter is absent of the cocoa solids used to make chocolate.

Chocolate was consumed by the ancient Aztecs as a frothy beverage, somewhat like hot chocolate we drink today.
Chocolate comes from a plant, called Theobroma cacao, which translates “Food of the Gods”.
Eating chocolate can also reduce the symptoms of stress.

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1683 Supposedly, a patent for a system of extracting salt from sea water was granted in England.
1841 The first wagon train left Independence, Missouri for California.
1851 London’s Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park. It was the first international exhibition ever to be held. The Exhibition was housed in the Crystal Palace.
1889 Bayer introduced aspirin powder in Germany.
1927 Imperial Airways became the first British airline to serve hot meals.
1931 Empire State Building opens. It was built on the site of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
1971 ‘Brown Sugar’ by the Rolling Stones is released.
1991 Charles Elton died. Elton was an English biologist who first developed the idea of a ‘food chain.’
2001 Hindus in Seattle filled suit against McDonald’s restaurant chain for not disclosing the use of beef flavoring in its French Fries.
2005 A 9 foot, 640 pound freshwater catfish was caught by fishermen in northern Thailand on the Mekong River. According to many, this is the largest freshwater fish ever caught.

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April 30th is National Raisin Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Raisin Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Raisins:

In 1873, a freak hot spell withered the grapes on the vine. One enterprising San Francisco grocer advertised these shriveled grapes as “Peruvian Delicacies” and the rest is history.

It takes more than 4 tons of grapes to produce 1 ton of raisins.

The finest raisins come from Malaga in Spain.

Raisin – comes from the Latin racemus and means “a cluster of grapes or berries”.
Fresno, California is the Raisin Capital of the World.

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1792 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich died. Captain Cook named the Sandwich Islands after him (now known as Hawaii). He is supposed to have invented the sandwich as a quick meal so as not to interrupt his gambling sessions.

1904 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis (St. Louis World’s Fair). It was at the Fair that the ice cream cone was supposed to have been invented. The hot dog and iced tea were also popularized at the Fair.

1952 Mr. Potato Head is introduced to the world. Mr. Potato Head is the also the first toy to be advertised on television.

1955 ‘Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White’ by Perez Prado hits number one on the charts.

1981 Dunkin Donuts opened its first store in the Philippines.

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April 29th is National Shrimp Scampi Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Shrimp Scampi Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Shrimp Scampi:

The word “scampi” means “shrimp”. Therefore, “shrimp scampi” is “shrimp shrimp” (or “scampi scampi”).

The pistol shrimp can deliver an explosive attack hotter than the surface of the sun and loud enough to rupture a human ear drum.

Every shrimp is actually born male, and some develop into females.

Some shrimp are actually capable of glowing in the dark.

Shrimp can vary in size from 1/2 inch to 12 inches.

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1768 Georg Brandt died. A Swedish chemist, he discovered the element cobalt in 1730. Cobalt is used in steel making, and is an essential part of vitamin B12
1856 A shipment of 33 camels arrived at the Texas port of Indianola. They had been purchased on the North African Coast, for the U.S. army to use in the deserts of the Southwest.
1913 The zipper was patented by Gideon Sundback. Most checked chefs pants still have buttons.
1988 McDonald’s announced it will be opening 20 Moscow restaurants. They will serve Bolshoi Mak instead of Big Macs.
1989 Donald Deskey died. An industrial designer, he designed the packaging for Tide laundry detergent and Crest toothpaste among others.

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April 28th is National Blueberry Pie Day !

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Blueberry Pie Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Blueberries:

Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.

The pale, powder-like protective coating on the skin of blueberries is called “bloom.”
A blueberry extract diet improves balance, coordination, and short-term memory in aging rats.

Blueberries are the official berries of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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The anthocyanin present in blueberries is good for eyesight.

Blueberry pie by Petee’s Pies in New York, NY.

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1789 The most famous mutiny in history took place on the English ship, ‘Bounty’, against Captain William Bligh. The ship was sailing to Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees.

1796 ‘American Cookery’ by Amelia Simmons is published in Hartford. It is the first cookbook written by an American. This is one of the classic cookbooks that can be found on the Food Reference Website.

1899 The comedy short ‘Stealing a Dinner’ was filmed by cameraman G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. (Mutoscope were ‘peephole’ motion pictures on cards mounted on a rotating drum turned by hand.)

1940 Italian operatic soprano, Louisia Tetrazzini, died. Chicken Tetrazzini, created by an American chef (San Francisco?), was named in her honor.

1944 Alice Waters was born. Executive Chef and Owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant, opened in 1971 in Berkeley, California

1953 Howard C. Rossin was issued a patent for an overcoat built for two (or Siamese Twins).

2005 Loaded Burrito Scare: Clovis, New Mexicao police were called to a middle school when someone saw what appeared to be a weapon being carried in by a student. Police did not find any weapon, but finally an 8th grader realized that what someone had seen was his extra credit commercial advertising project – a 30 inch long steak burrito wrapped in tin foil and a T-Shirt.

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April 27th is National Prime Rib Day!

John-Bryan Hopkins

Happy National Prime Rib Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about Prime Rib:

A standing rib roast is a prime rib consisting of SEVEN ribs.

A scooped & tied standing rib roast will have the bones taken off and then tied back on.

A rib eye roast is a boneless prime rib.

The beef is cut from the rib section, the largest central area of the steer, located in between the chuck and the short loin, just above the plate.

If choosing a prime rib at the butcher, look for a cut that has a bright color and milky white fat.

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1773 The British Parliament passed the ‘Tea Act,’ one of the events that led to the American Revolution.
1865 Cornell University was chartered. Cornell is an agricultural land grant university endowed by Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Western Union Telegraph Co. Today, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, offers many programs, including Agricultural and Life Sciences, Hotel Administration, and Nutritional Sciences.
1871 The American Museum of Natural History in New York City was opened to the public.
1902 Julius Sterling Morton died. He was the founder of Arbor Day, first observed in Nebraska on April 10, 1872. Over one million trees were planted.
1947 Pete Ham of the rock group Badfinger was born.
1965 R. C. Duncan was granted a patent for ‘Pampers’ disposable diapers.
1995 On ‘Seinfeld’ Kramer began sculpting with pasta.

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