Friday, January 2, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“If you are what you eat and you don't know what you're eating, do you know who you are?”
Claude Fischler (2004)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Cream Puff Day (Cream Puff Recipe) • National Buffet Day • Swiss Cheese Day (Swiss Cheese Trivia) • Feast Day of St. Marcarius, patron saint of confectioners, cooks, pastry chefs. Before he became a hermit, Marcarius was a sugarplum merchant. • St. Adelard's Day, patron of gardeners. • Switzerland: Berchtoldstag (Berchtold's Day). This day honors the founding of Bern in 1191, by Duke Berchtold V. Legend claims that he went hunting and said he would name the city for the first animal he killed, which was a bear (‘bern’). • Diet Resolution Week (Jan 1-7)
(Healthy Diets & Dieting Articles)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1788 Georgia 'The Peach State' is the 4th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. (Georgia Food Trivia) 1886 E. A. McIlhenny, the son of Tabasco sauce inventor Edmund McIlhenny, shot a 19 foot 2 inch alligator in Louisiana. It is said to be the largest ever recorded. (Alligator Trivia -- Alligator Recipes) 1900 U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy to encourage trade with China. 1906 'Gulden's Mustard' trademark was registered.
(Mustard Trivia & Facts --- Mustard Recipes)
(Mustard Quotes) 1923 Secretary of the U.S. Dept of Interior, Albert Fall, resigns due to public outrage over the Teapot Dome scandal. 1923 Harry G. Tatosian of Bridgeport, Connecticut received U.S. patent No. 1,440,851 for an Ice-Cream-Cone-Rolling Machine (possibly the first).
(Ice Cream Trivia --- Ice Cream Quotes) 1929 The U.S. and Canada sign a treaty to preserve Niagara Falls. 1974 President Richard Nixon signed the Emergency Highway Energy Consevation Act into law, requiring states to limit speed limits to 55mph. (Repealed on Nov 28, 1995). 1975 Working with Canadian zoologist Freud Urquhart, amateur naturalist Kenneth C. Brugger discovered the winter home of the Monarch butterfly in the mountains of central Mexico. The refuge he found was only about 200 square meters and contained about 20 million butterflies. 1983 'Maneater' by Daryl Hall & John Oates is #1 on the charts. 1990 Campbell's Soup introduces Cream of Broccoli soup. It becomes their most successful new soup in 55 years. (Campbell’s Soup Trivia) 2005 H. David Dalquist, the creator of the aluminum Bundt Pan in 1950, died in Minnesota at the age of 86 (born May 25, 1918). 2005 Canada confirms a second case of mad cow disease, just days after the US planned to reopen its border to Canadian beef. 2008 Oil prices hit $100 for the first time. 2012 For the first time in more than 100 years, Americans are eating more chicken than beef. Chicken consumption per capita is 60 lbs while beef consumption is under 60 lbs. 2013 Mauritania, in western North Africa, has banned the use of plastic bags to protect the environment and the lives of land and sea animals. 2020 Post-cookout remnants of rhizomes that are at least 170,000 years old have been found in northeast South Africa, suggesting that humans may have been eating starchy carbs much earlier than previously believed.
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· Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the first Gemini spacecraft flight.
· Cool Whip, a whipped cream substitute, is introduced.
· The first Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
· Campbell Soup introduces Franco-American Spaghetti-O's.
· The Pillsbury Doughboy, 'Poppin' Fresh,' was born. 2) Small grains of semolina cooked by steaming or boiling and served like rice. 3) Any of various herbs in the parsley family, having small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels, whose roots and fruits are used in flavoring liqueurs and whose stems are candied and eaten. 4) A city of northwest Italy, southeast of Turin noted for its sparkling wines. Click Here for Today’s Quiz Answers
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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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