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Chef James

“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”
 
Fernand Point, 1941

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June Food Holidays:

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SEE Detailed JUNE Food Calendar

JUNE is:

• California Avocado Month
Peak California Avocado Season

• Georgia Blueberry Month
Peak season for Georgia blueberries

• Grain of the Month: Sorghum

• Men’s Health Month

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DID YOU KNOW?

In the 17th century annatto was being used in Europe in chocolate recipes, and by the 18th century it was being used to color Cheshire Cheese and Leicester Cheese in England. Annatto has practically no flavor so it is a preferred coloring agent. It is also used as a saffron substitute.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Daily Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.”   T.S. Eliot
 

FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:

• National Cheese Day  (Cheese Trivia, Facts & Stats)
  (Cheese Quotes  ---  Cheese: Cooking & Storage)

• National Cognac Day (Cognac & Brandy Articles)

• Capitol Hill Ocean Week (June 3-4, 2025) [National Marine Sanctuary Foundation] Explore the ocean-climate connection and how we can make ocean conservation part of climate strategies and nationally determined contributions to address climate change. 

• National Garden Week (June 1-7, 2025)
  [National Garden Clubs Inc]

• National Fishing & Boating Week: (June 1-8, 2025)
  [Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation]
  (Articles About Fish & Fishing)

• UK: British Tomato Fortnight: (June 2-15, 2025)
  [British Tomato Growers’ Assoc.]  (Tomato Trivia)
  (Tomato Recipes  ---  Tomato Quotes)
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

1070 The Birth of Roquefort Cheese: According to legend, a young shepherd left his rye bread and sheep's cheese in the cave of Combalou to pursue a shepherdess.  Later when he returned to the cave, he discovered his meal covered in a blue-green mould. He tasted the cheese and was delighted.  Roquefort cheese was born.  (Roquefort trivia & facts)

1845 Hatch's sowing machine for wheat, oats and other grasses was first demonstrated.

1872 Robert Chesebrough of New York patented a method for making Vaseline.

1895 African American inventor Joseph Lee patented a machine for "bread crumbing." It was intended for use by restaurants to crumb large quantities of bread scraps.

1907 The automatic washer & dryer are introduced.

1912 Massachusetts becomes the first state to adopt a minimum wage law.  (Massachusetts Food Trivia)

1916 Gaylord Nelson was born (died July 3, 2005). Former U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin. He founded Earth Day in 1970, and helped spawn modern environmental activism. (see Earth Day: April 22).

1936 (Sources vary: 1936 or 1937). Sylvan Goldman ran a successful chain of grocery stores, where customers could carry hand baskets while they shopped. In 1936, when he was a major owner of the Piggly-Wiggly supermarket chain, he invented the shopping cart. He got the idea from a wooden folding chair. He designed the cart by putting a basket on the seat, another below and wheels on the legs. He and a mechanic, Fred Young put one together with a metal frame, and wire baskets. The frames could be folded up and the baskets stacked, which took up less storage room. Customers were reluctant to use this new contraption, so Goldman hired fake shoppers to wheel the carts around pretending to shop so people could see how useful the cart could be!
They became a hit, and he formed a new company to manufacture the carts. It is hard to imagine a supermarket or discount store without shopping carts today.

1970 At the 43rd National Spelling Bee, Libby Childress wins spelling the word 'croissant.'

1974 The Cleveland Indians were playing bad, and fewer and fewer fans came to watch them play. They had a ‘Ten Cent Beer Night’ to bring out the fans. Only 22,000 fans turned out in a stadium that could seat 60,000, but they made up for the low numbers by becoming so drunk and unruly, going on the field and disrupting the game, that the Indians had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers.

1980 Earle McAusland, publisher/editor of Gourmet magazine died at age 89.

2003 Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire hours after being charged with conspiracy, securities fraud etc.

2007 Vincent Sardi Jr. died. He operated the famous Broadway restaurant, 'Sardi's' for 50 years. He retired in 1997.

2008 Folgers Coffee is acquired by J.M. Smucker Co. from Procter & Gamble.

2022 A California court ruled that a bumblebee is a fish under California law, and thus should be protected by the state’s endangered species ordinances.  The judges explained that "although the term fish is colloquially and commonly understood to refer to aquatic species," the law, as it is written, makes the legal "definition of fish… not so limited."
 

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A FEW FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS
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June 1-30, 2025 - Idaho Wine and Cider Month
Statewide, Idaho

June 2-8, 2025 - Duncan Hines Days
Bowling Green, Kentucky

June 5-8, 2025 - 116th Annual Lebanon Strawberry Festival - Lebanon, Oregon

June 6-7, 2025  37th International Horseradish Festival - Collinsville, Illinois

June 6-8, 2025  25th RibFest Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

June 6-8, 2025 - Annual Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival - Little Chute, Wisconsin

June 6-7 & 14, 2025  Georgia Peach Festival
Byron & Fort Valley, Georgia

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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ    (new DAILY questions)

1) All of the following events took place in the same year.  What year is it?
· First successful beet sugar factory in the U.S. was built in California.
· Saccharin, an artificial sweetener, was discovered.
· Echo Farms Dairy of New York began selling milk in glass bottles, the first in the U.S.
· The first cash register invented to prevent bartenders from stealing at the Pony House restaurant in Dayton, Ohio.

2) The tree tomato is native to South America. It was given the tropical sounding name 'tamarillo' by this country in 1967, and most of the tamarillo sold in the U.S. is grown there. What country?
  a) China.  b) Mexico.  c) New Zealand.
  d) Chile.  e) Jamaica

3) Which has more calories and fat and why -- a plain sugared doughnut with a hole in the middle, or a round jelly filled doughnut?  Why?

Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers

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Dedication
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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A FOOD LIFE

"There are those who say that a life devoted to food -- cooking it, eating it, writing about it, even dreaming about it -- is a frivolous life, an indulgent life.  I would disagree.  If we do not care what we eat, we do not care for ourselves, and if we do not care for ourselves, how can we care for others?"
Fictional cookery writer Hilary Small, in episode 6, series 2 of 'Pie In the Sky'

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DID YOU KNOW?

The USDA issued new guidelines in 2002 regulating the size of the holes in domestically produced Swiss cheese. The size of the holes was reduced by 50% to accomodate modern cheese slicing machines that jammed with the larger holes.

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DID YOU KNOW?

The first American blue cheese plant was founded by Felix Frederickson in 1936 in Faribault, Minnesota.

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