Thursday, February 20, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.”
Julia Child (1912-2004)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Cherry Pie Day (Cherry Pie Recipes)
(Cherry Trivia) • National Muffin Day (Muffin Recipes)
(Muffin Trivia --- Muffin Quotes) • National CSA Week (Feb 16-22, 2025) Formerly CSA Day [CSA Innovation Network] Community Supported Agriculture. • National FFA Week: Feb 15-22, 2025 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22 • UK: [Real Bread Week] (Feb 15-23, 2025) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1703 Mount Gay Estate, Barbados, began distilling rum. Mount Gay Rum is the oldest existing brand of rum in the world. (Rum Trivia --- Rum Quotes) 1792 President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act, establishing the U.S. Post Office as a cabinet department. 1829 Yuengling Brewery in Pennsylvania opened. It is the oldest brewery still operating in the U.S.
(Beer and Brewing Articles --- Beer Quotes) 1872 Cyrus W. Baldwin of Boston, Massachusetts received U.S. patent No. 123,761 for a hydraulic electric elevator. It was installed in the Stephens Hotel in New York City. 1872 Silas Noble and James Cooley of Granville, Massachusetts were issued a patent (No. 123,790) for a toothpick manufacturing machine. 1872 Luther Childs Crowell of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was granted a patent (# 123,811) for a machine to manufacture square bottom paper bags. It is the same basic design still used today. Crowell is the 3rd most prolific American inventor of 19th century, with more than 280 patents.
(Massachusetts Food Trivia) 1890 Michael Romanoff was born in Lithuania (died Sept 1, 1971). Born Hershel Geguzin, he was an actor, conman, professional imposter and Hollywood restaurateur. He posed as Russian Prince Michael Alexandrovich Dmitri Oblensky Romanoff from about 1919. He opened Romanoff’s restaurant in Beverly Hills in the late 1930s, which became popular with Hollywood movie stars. The restaurant closed in 1962 1933 The U.S. Congress proposed the Twenty-first Amendment to repeal Prohibition. The amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933 and became effective on December 15, 1933. (Prohibition Trivia) 1969 'Candy', Ringo Starr's X-rated film premiers. 1971 'One Bad Apple' by the Osmonds was number one on the music charts. 1985 Clarence Nash died. The original voice of Donald Duck. 2009 Hershey's, the largest U.S. candy maker, closed its candy factory in Reading, Pennsylvania today. The factory produced among other, the Zagnut, York Peppermint Pattie, and 5th Avenue candy bars. Production was moved to their new factory in Monterey, Mexico.
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** February 6-23, 2025 76th Annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo - San Antonio, Texas February 13-March 2, 2025 Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival - Indio, California February 20-22, 2025 New York Farm Show
Syracuse, New York February 20-23, 2025 South Beach Wine & Food Festival - South Beach, Florida February 20-23, 2025 Newport Seafood & Wine Festival - Newport, Oregon February 22-March 2, 2025 Annapolis Restaurant Week - Annapolis, 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?
· Joseph V. Horn and Frank Hardart opened Horn & Hardart, a 15-stool lunchroom, in Philadelphia.
· Marvin C. Stone received the first patent for wax coated paper drinking straws (made by a spiral winding process).
· Chewing gum was first sold in vending machines on elevated train stations in New York cITY.
· The 399 room Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California opened. At the time, the largest resort hotel in the world.
· Refrigerated boxcars made first long-haul shipments of produce and meat. 2) Who was the first to use ground sassafras leaves as a seasoning and what is the common name for this seasoning? 3) What do these cheeses have in common: cottage cheese, pot cheese and farmer's cheese? 4) How do botanists classify the eggplant? 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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