Saturday, November 15, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“I always eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
They do taste kind of funny but
It keeps them on my knife.”
Anonymous
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• [America Recycles Day] (annually Nov 15) • National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day • Spicy Hermit Cookie Day (1906 Recipes) • National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
(Breakfast Cereal Trivia --- Cereal Quotes) • National Bundt Cake Day (Since 2006, by Nordicware) (Prize Winning Bundt Recipe) • St. Albert the Great, patron of natural sciences and students. • National Split Pea Soup Week: Celebrated in the U.S. since 1969 (Nov 9-15, 2025 - 2nd week in Nov)
(Pea Soup Recipes --- Pea Quotes) • UK: National Baking Week (always Oct 14-20) • Australia: [Recycling Week] (Nov 10-16, 2025)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1660 Asser Levy from Portugal, applied for a license to sell kosher meat. He was the first kosher butcher in New Amsterdam (New York). 1849 The first poultry show in the U.S. was held on November 15-16 in Boston, Massachusetts. 1,423 birds were exhibited by 219 exhibitors. 1868 James Mayer de Rothschild died (born May 15, 1792). European banker and founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family. In 1868 he acquired the famous Chateau Lafite vineyards in Bordeaux, France. (Bordeaux Wine Article --- Wine Quotes) 1881 The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (FOTLU) was organized at Turner Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It changed its name to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on Dec 8, 1886. 1882 Felix Frankfurter, U. S. Supreme Court justice, was born. 1904 King Camp Gillette was issued U.S. patent No. 775,134 for his disposable razor (applied for on Dec 3, 1901). 1952 'Jambalaya (On The Bayou)' by Hank Williams was number one on the country music charts. 1964 Bernard Frank died (born March 7, 1902). American forester and conservationist, he was one of the eight co-founders of the Wilderness Society. 1967 Elmer McCollum died. He was a chemist who discovered vitamins A, B and D. He was also the originator or the letter system for naming vitamins.
(Vitamin Trivia & Facts) 1969 The first color TV commercial in Britain was aired, for Birdseye Peas. (Birdseye Trivia) 1969 Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburger restaurant in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He named it for his 8 year old daughter Melinda, whose nickname was Wendy. 2022 The U.N. estimates that world population is now 8 billion people.
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** October 30-Nov 16, 2025 119th Edition of the State Fair of Louisiana - Shreveport, Louisiana November 7-16, 2025 Wurstfest
New Braunfels, Texas November 14-16, 2025 - 54th Annual Waterfowl Festival - Easton, Maryland November 15-16, 2025 16th Annual Riverfest Seafood Festival - Ormond Beach, Florida November 16, 2025 New York BagelFest
Flushing, New York November 16, 2025 The Chocolate Expo
Lincoln, Rhode Island Nov 18, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 National Gingerbread House Competition & Display - Asheville, N. Carolina (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?
· The first commercial milking machines are introduced.
· 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
· Gustavus Swift perfected the refrigerated railroad car.
· The White House hosted the first Easter Egg Roll. Previously, the activities had been held on the Capitol grounds.
· In Brooklyn, New York, milk was supposedly delivered to homes in glass bottles for the first time, rather than being ladled from metal cans. 2) In 1903, a German importer received a ship load of beans that had been soaked with saltwater during a storm. He turned to his researchers to figure out a way the shipment might be saved.
What did they come up with? 3) Why are there thousands of grasshoppers in the foundation blocks of the First United Methodist Church in Hutchinson, Kansas? Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Read an article about Chef James and the FoodReference.com website published in the Winona Daily News, Minneapolis StarTribune, and numerous other newspapers: Click here for the Article
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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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