Saturday, May 4, 2024Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Because at some more flexible period he had advanced from oranges to grape-fruit he considered himself an epicure.”
Sinclair Lewis, 'Main Street' (1920)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• Big Brew for National Homebrew Day - May 4, 2024 (1st Sat in May). [American Homebrewers Assoc.] • National Orange Juice Day (Oranges Trivia) • Herb Day (May 4, 2024 - 1st Sat in May)
[Herb Day Coalition] • National Candied Orange Peel Day • International Respect for Chickens Day: Celebrating chickens and protests their suffering and abuse in cockfighting, agribusiness, experimental research, etc
[United Poultry Concerns: www.upc-online.org/] • Stewardship Week - April 28-May 5, 2024 (last Sun in April to 1st Sun in May) [Nat’l Assoc. of Conservation Districts] To encourage conserving natural resources for our future. • UK: National Gardening Week: April 29 - May 5, 2024 [Royal Horticultural Society] Encouraging gardners to share their love of gardening.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1494 Columbus landed at Jamaica and met the Arawak Indians. The Arawak used Jamaican pimento (allspice) to season and smoke meat (usually pigs), the foundation upon which Jamaican Jerk developed.
(Jamaican Jerk History, etc.) 1626 Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now Manhattan island in New York City. 1789 Montreal fixes the price and size of bread: "the white loaf of 4lbs. at 13d., or 30 sous", etc., and tells bakers they must also "mark their bread with a mark." 1854 Asa Fitch was appointed as New York state entomologist, the first such in the U.S. He studied insects and their effects on agricultural crops. 1929 Audrey Hepburn was born (died Jan 20, 1993). Actress and humanitarian. One of her many films was 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1961). In her latter years she served as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). 1942 War time food rationing began in the U.S. 1959 Charles Lavelle Broley died (born Dec 7, 1879). A Canadian banker and ornithologist, he was one of the first to implicate DDT in the declining hatching success of bald eagles, and the environmental dangers of pesticides. 1959 At the first Grammy Awards, 'Tequila' by the Champs won best Best Rhythm & Blues Performance for 1958. 2003 The first cloned mule was born at the University of Idaho. It was named 'Idaho Gem' (Mule Trivia) 2009 Dom DeLuise died (born Aug 1, 1933). Actor, comedian and cookbook author. 'Eat This' (1988) and 'Eat This Too!' (1997). 2012 Canada stops production of its penny. The coins are withdrawn from circulation on February 4, 2013.
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** UPCOMING FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALSMay 3-4, 2024 - La Habra Citrus Fair
La Habra, California May 3-4, 2024 - Annual BBQ Festival on the Neuse
Kinston, North Carolina May 3-5, 2024 - Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival
Breaux Bridge, Louisiana May 4, 2024 9th Ford Cuban Sandwich & Art Festival of Central Florida - Kissimmee, Florida May 4-5, 2024 - 51st Annual Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival - West Friendship, Maryland (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) All of the following events took place in the same year. What year is it?
· Ball Brothers Glass Mfg Co began producing fruit jars.
· William H. Fruen of Minneapolis, Minnesota was granted a U.S patent for the first coin-operated, automatic, vending machine to dispense liquids.
· Quaker Oats in cardboard canisters becomes one of the first food commodities to be sold in packages .
· Chinese farmworkers make up half of California's agricultural labor force. 2) A Turkish soup of beef stock & small meat-filled dumplings, garnished with yogurt, thyme and mint. Name this soup. 3) What food was created in 1942 for the Texas State Fair by Neil Fletcher; a maize hound? 4) What brownish, bitter, foul-smelling resinous material obtained from the roots of an Asian member of parsley family, is used as a condiment? Click Here for Quiz Answers
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This website is dedicated to:
· Gladys Ehler, my mother, who taught me patience and how to make Sauerbraten (it is still my favorite)
· Edward Ehler, my father, who taught me a love of books and history.
· Barbara Saba, my sister, who taught me how to dance.
· Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew. Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq. He was 30 yrs. young. Chef James
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