Thursday, February 26, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Often, admiring a chef and getting to know him is like loving goose liver and then meeting the goose.”
George Lang, restaurateur
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Chili Day (Feb 26, 2026)
(Chili Recipes --- Chili Quotes) • National Pistachio Day (Pistachio Nut Trivia) • National Personal Chefs Day (February 26 & July 16)
(Articles about Chefs and Becoming a Chef)
(Chef’s Quotes --- Chef Trivia) • UK: National Toast Day (Feb 26, 2026, last Thurs) Founded in 2014 by the Tiptree World Bread Awards. • [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 23-27, 2026) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels. • [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 23-March 1, 2026) • National FFA Week: Feb 21-28, 2026
[Future Farmers of America] • UK: [Real Bread Week] (Feb 21-March 1, 2026) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1829 Levi Strauss was born. Inventor and manufacturer of jeans. He originally planned to make canvas tents for miners in the California gold rush, but soon found that durable pants sold better. 1846 William ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody was born (died Jan 10, 1917) American frontiersman, buffalo hunter and Indian scout. 1852 John Harvey Kellogg was born. A surgeon, vegetarian and health food pioneer, while superintendent at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, he developed the first breakfast cereals for his patients, Granose (flaked wheat) and toasted corn flakes. His brother, William K. Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. to produce cornflakes for sale to the public. (Breakfast Cereal Trivia & Facts)
(Breakfast Cereal Quotes) 1857 Emile Coue was born. A French pharmacist, he was an advocate of autosuggestion. He suggested repeating the following sentence 15 to 20 times in the morning and evening: "Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better." 1895 Michael Joseph Owens of Toledo, Ohio patented an automatic glass blowing machine that could make multiple bottles at the same time. A big advance in bottle making. He founded the Owens Bottle Machine Co., and the Libbey-Owens Glass Company.
(Bottle Trivia --- Bottle Quotes) 1902 John L. Mason died (born 1832). Mason patented the metal screw-on lid for glass jars used for canning. (patent No. 22,186, Nov 30, 1858). (Canning History) 1903 Richard Jordan Gatling died. Before inventing the Gatling Gun, he developed a machine for sowing rice, wheat, and other grains, and invented a steam plow. 1908 At midnight (Feb 25/26), service through the Hudson & Manhattan railway tunnels opened to the public, carrying passengers between Manhattan and Hoboken New Jersey. It was the first railroad tunnel under a major river in the U.S. 1919 Grand Canyon National Park was established. 1,218,375 acres in the northwest corner of Arizona, it is 18 miles across, and over two hundred miles long. 1928 Fats Domino (Antoine Domino) was born in New Orleans (died Oct 24, 2017).. One of rock-and-roll's earliest stars, one of his early hits was 'Blueberry Hill' which reached number 2 in 1956. 1929 Grand Teton National Park was established in Wyoming. 1942 The 14th Academy Awards were held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. 'How Green Was My Valley' directed by John Ford won Best Picture. 1945 A wartime midnight curfew on nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment goes into effect in the U.S. 1945 Bob Hite of the music group 'Canned Heat' was born. 2008 The Global Seed Vault ('doomsday seed vault') opened deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. It has the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples from around the world and shield them from man-made and natural disasters. 2008 All 7,100 Starbucks Coffee Shops in the U.S. close for three hours of employee training. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** February 12-March 1, 2026 Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival - Indio, California February 21-March 2, 2026 New York City Beer Week
New York, New York February 25-March 1, 2026 92nd Annual Minneapolis Home + Garden Show - Minneapolis, Minnesota February 26-28, 2026 World's Championship Bar-B-Que - Houston, Texas February 26-March 8, 2026 Florida Strawberry Festival - Plant City, Florida February 27-March 1, 2026 Annual National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show - Albuquerque, New Mexico February 28, 2026 Kennett Winterfest
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (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?
· George W. Brown of Galesburg, Illinois, received a patent for the first successful mechanical corn planter
· The Waseca County Horse Thief Detectives are organized in Wilton, Minnesota.
· Work began on a 2 mile long, 5 foot diameter, water supply tunnel for Chicago.
· The first reported camel race in the U.S. was held at Agricultural Park in Sacramento, California. 2) Can you list the following pies in the correct order of popularity in America?
a) pumpkin. b) chocolate. c) apple.
d) cherry. e) lemon meringue. 3) They are among the largest, strongest, fastest, most cunning, and ferocious of all animals, but many of them are quite harmless. In many countries they are valued as food, some have uses in bird cages and artists pigments. Never very popular in the U.S. except in ethnic communities (Greek, Italian, Asian, Portuguese), The Greeks hurl them against rocks and the Portuguese beat them with bottles to tenderize them before they are cooked. When properly prepared they are as delicate and tender as chicken.
Name these animals. 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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