Sunday, November 16, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“If we don't watch out, the pleasure to be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs....A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.” Benoite Groult
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Fast Food Day
(Fast Food Trivia --- Fast Food Quotes) • St. Gertrude the Great, patron of travelers. • National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week (Nov 16-22, 2025 - week before Thanksgiving) [National Coalition for the Homeless] A time to share our compassion with our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness. • UK: National Baking Week (always Oct 14-20) • Australia: [Recycling Week] (Nov 10-16, 2025)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1620 The first corn (maize) was supposedly discovered (by European settlers) by some Pilgrims led by Myles Standish, while exploring the area near Provincetown, Massachusetts. They named the spot Corn Hill. (Corn Trivia -- Corn Recipes)
(Corn Cooking Tips --- Corn Quotes) 1796 English inventor Marc Isambard Brunel received a patent for 'Ruling Books and Paper' 1801 Alexander Hamilton founded the New-York Evening Post newspaper, the oldest continuously published Daily newspaper in the U.S. 1841 Napoleon E. Guerin, of New York City, received a patent for a 'Life Preserver' filled rasped or grated cork. 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. 1867 Leon Daudet was born. French journalist and novelist, well known gastronome of his time. 1889 The Oahu Railway began operating on Oahu, Hawaii's 3rd largest island. The railroad made it possible to move agricultural products from inland to port, stimulating the local economy and providing a valuable transportation route for decades.
(Hawaii Food Trivia & Facts) 1907 Oklahoma became the 46th state.
(Oklahoma Food Trivia) 1913 The first volume of Marcel Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' was published. On January 1, 1909, he ate a piece of tea-soaked toast whose taste caused a flood of childhood memories. In his 7 volume allegorical novel the character Swann has a similar experience when he bites into a lemon cookie (a madelaine) which brings on a similar flood of memories. This is one of the most widely quoted allusions in literature. 1916 Charles Dawson ('Daws') Butler was born (died May 18, 1988). Voice actor. He was the original voice of Cap'n Crunch, mascot of the Quaker Oats cereal of the same name. Also the voice of Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and dozens of other cartoon characters. 1920 Pitney Bowes introduced the first postage meter for metered mail in Stamford, Connecticut. 1934 Carl Paul Gottfried Linde died. (born June 11, 1842). A German engineer who invented mechanical refrigeration. He developed it so beer could be brewed year round. (Brewing requires low temperatures.)
(Beer and Brewing Articles --- Beer Quotes) 1958 Samuel Hopkins Adams died (born Jan 26, 1871). American author and journalist. His series of articles in 1905 about patent medicines ('The Great American Fraud') for Collier's Weekly, led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. 1960 Fishermen in British Columbia, Canada end a 12-month labor dispute that shut down province's herring fishery. (Herring Trivia) 1994 The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea took effect today. "Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the Convention relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks"
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New Braunfels, Texas November 14-16, 2025 - 54th Annual Waterfowl Festival - Easton, Maryland November 16, 2025 New York BagelFest
Flushing, New York Nov 18, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 National Gingerbread House Competition & Display - Asheville, N. Carolina November 21-22, 2025 Annual Plant City Pig Jam
Plant City, Florida November 21-23, 2025 32nd Annual Mountain Mandarin Festival - Auburn, California November 22-24, 2025 America's Hometown Thanksgiving - Plymouth, Massachusetts (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
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· The New Haven Restaurant Institute was founded. It soon became The Culinary Institute of America.
· Self rising cornmeal was marketed for the first time.
· French's Instant Potato (mashed potatoes) were introduced.
· The cocktail 'Moscow Mule' is created (Smirnoff vodka and ginger beer in a copper mug) 2) This genus of tuberous rooted herbs of the daisy family, is native to Mexico and Central America, and grows at elevations of 5,000 feet and above. (It is the national flower of Mexico.) They were brought to Spain in 1789 and soon spread to Britain, France and the rest of Europe. The botanist, Andreas Dahl, considered it a vegetable, and the French, like the Aztecs, cultivated the plant for its edible tuber. The tuber has a taste similar to the Jerusalem artichoke, and are cooked in the same manner. The emphasis soon switched to its use as a garden flower, when some of the larger, double flowered varieties arrived in Europe. There are about 2,000 varieties grown for their flowers, which include single and double flowers in white, yellow, red, orange, purple and bicolor.
Name this plant. 3) This cheese was developed as a cheaper substitute for Roquefort in the early 1900s. After the second World War it was very successfully marketed throughout Europe and especially in Britain. It is now considered on of the world's best blue cheeses.
a) Cambazola. b) Danablu. c) Gorgonzola.
d) Maytag Blue. e) Saga Blue. 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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