Sunday, October 12, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.”
Li Zhaoxing, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. (1998)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Gumbo Day (Gumbo Origin & History) • National Farmers Day (Old Farmers Day)
(Farms & Farmers Trivia & Facts --- Farm Quotes) • [National Pulled Pork Day]
(Pork Trivia --- Pork Recipes --- Pork Quotes) • St. Edwin, patron of tramps and parents of large families. • Canada: National Family Week (week before Thanksgiving Day - Oct 6-12, 2025) • UK: [National Curry Week] (Oct 6-12, 2025) Celebrate over 200 years of Indian restaurants in the UK. • UK: [British Food Fortnight] (Sept 26-Oct 12, 2025) • UK: Seed Gathering Season (Sept 22-Oct 22)
[The Tree Council] Gather seeds, fruits and nuts which can be nurtured to grow the trees of the future.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1492 Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus arrived at the Bahamas. (Celebrated in U.S. on 2nd Mon in Oct) 1609 The English nursery rhyme 'Three Blind Mice' was first published in the folk music compilation 'Deuteromelia' by Thomas Ravenscroft. 1810 The first Oktoberfest is celebrated in Munich. Oktoberfest originated as a horse race to celebrate the marriage of the crown prince of Bavaria (later King Louis I) to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. Today it is a 2 week festival ending on the 1st Sunday in October, during which more than 1 million gallons of beer are consumed at the Munich festival. (Beer Trivia --- Beer Quotes) 1823 Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, began selling 'Macintosh' raincoats (Macs) composed of two sheets of fabric with rubber latex sandwiched between them. 1849 In Great Britain, Charles Rowley patented a safety pin. (However, safety pins existed prior to his patent). 1914 Margaret E. Knight died. American inventor, she invented an improved paper bag machine to make bags with flat bottoms. 1920 Construction of the Holland Tunnel began. The first Hudson River automobile tunnel, linking New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey. It opened to traffic on Nov 13, 1927. 1923 Jean Nidetch was born. founder of ‘Weight Watchers’, offering dieting products and services. It began as a discussion group for weight loss.
(Healthy Diets & Dieting Articles) 1950 Takeshi Kaga was born. A Japanese actor, he is best known as the host of the very successful TV show, 'Iron Chef.' It has been shown around the world dubbed or subtitled. There is an American version of the show on the Food Network, hosted by Kaga's nephew, Mark Dacascos. 1963 'Sugar Shack' by Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs, hits number 1 on the charts. 1965 Paul Hermann Muller died. A Swiss chemist who discovered that DDT was a potent insecticide. It was the most widely used insecticide for more than 20 years, and helped to increase food production around the world. Due mainly to its accumulation in animals that eat insects, and its toxic effects on them and those further up the food chain, it has been banned in the U.S. since 1972. However its residue is still found in some foods grown in the U.S. in 2002!
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Columbia, South Carolina October 10-19, 2025 85th Annual Arkansas State Fair
Little Rock, Arkansas October 11-12, 2025 35th World Championship Gumbo Cook-Off - New Iberia, Louisiana October 15-18, 2025 Circleville Pumpkin Show
Circleville, Ohio October 15-19, 2025 New York City Wine & Food Festival - New York, New York October 16-19, 2025 - 58th Annual World Championship Chili Cook-Off - Indianapolis, Indiana October 18-19, 2025 59th Annual U.S. National Oyster Festival in St. Mary’s County
St. Mary's County, 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?
· E. Bean creates the orange crate. It holds about 200 oranges.
· In Berlin, Ferdinand Tiemann patents a process for making synthetic vanillin, the key flavor ingredient in vanilla beans.
· The Bing cherry is developed by a Chinese orchardman in Oregon.
· The Palace Hotel opens in San Francisco. 2) This 19th century English physician claimed that bread and vegetables were bad for us. He claimed that starch ferments in the stomach and produces acid, vinegar, alcohol and yeast, all of which poison bodily tissues and cause disease and mental derangement. What was his name and what food did he recommended we eat 3 times a day? 3) What candy originally contained a small amount of sea water and was popular in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the late 1800s? 4) What Italian liqueur takes its name from the Latin name of the elderbush, its original flavoring ingredient? 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
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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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