Thursday, November 13, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”
Robert Byrne
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• [International Tempranillo Day] (Nov 13, 2025 2nd Thurs) A black grape variety native to Spain and used in the great Rioja and Ribera del Duero wines, it is now the 3rd most widely planted wine grape variety worldwide. • National Indian Pudding Day (Pudding Recipes)
(Pudding Quotes) • St. Diego Alacala's Day, patron of cooks. • National Split Pea Soup Week: Celebrated in the U.S. since 1969 (Nov 9-15, 2025 - 2nd week in Nov)
(Pea Soup Recipes --- Pea Quotes) • UK [National School Meals Week] (Nov 10-14, 2025) • Australia: [Recycling Week] (Nov 10-16, 2025)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1710 Charles-Simon Favart was born in Paris, France. A French playwright and pastry cook. 1805 Supposedly, Johann George Lehner, a German butcher from Frankfurt living in Vienna, Austria, created a beef and pork sausage. Called 'Frankfurter' in Austria and elsewhere 'Wiener' (also known as 'Wiener-Frankfurter' and Wienerwurst). In America it's usually called a ‘Hot Dog.’ (Hot Dog Trivia)
(Hot Dog Quotes) 1893 Edward Adelbert Doisy was born (died Oct 23, 1986). American biochemist who shared (with Henrik Dam) the 1943 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the isolation and synthesis of vitamin K. 1895 The first shipment of canned pineapple left Hawaii. (Hawaii Food Trivia) 1927 The Holland Tunnel opened - the first Hudson River automobile tunnel from New York City to New Jersey. 1930 The Rotolactor was developed by the Walker-Gordon Dairy. It was a 50 stall revolving milking platform that could mechanically milk over 1,500 cows in seven hours. (Dairy Cattle Trivia & Facts) 1930 The play 'Grand Hotel' opened in New York City. In 1932 the film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture. 1933 One of the first sit-down strikes began. It took place at the Hormel packing plant in Austin, Minnesota. (Hormel Trivia & Facts) 1946 Vincent Joseph Schaefer produced the first artificial snow from a natural cloud today over Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts. At 14,000 feet an airplane seeded the clouds with small particles of dry ice. Snow fell through 3,000 feet but evaporated in the dry air before it reached the ground. (In the same year, for his movie 'It's A Wonderful Life,' Frank Capra developed a new method for making fake snow using 'foamite' (used in fire extinguishers) mixed with sugar and water (some say soap flakes). 1967 Clementine Paddleford died (born Sept 27, 1898). American cookbook author and food columnist for numerous publications including NY Herald Tribune, NY Sun, NY Telegram; Gourmet and This Week magazines.
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** October 30-Nov 16, 2025 119th Edition of the State Fair of Louisiana - Shreveport, Louisiana November 7-16, 2025 Wurstfest
New Braunfels, Texas November 14, 2025 WhiskyFest - New York, NY November 14-16, 2025 - 54th Annual Waterfowl Festival - Easton, Maryland November 15-16, 2025 16th Annual Riverfest Seafood Festival - Ormond Beach, Florida November 16, 2025 New York BagelFest
Flushing, New York November 16, 2025 The Chocolate Expo
Lincoln, Rhode Island (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?
· Heinz Tomato Soup went on sale in the UK for first time.
· The population of the U.S. is now 92,228,496. Farmers are 31% of the labor force.
· The Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet and nothing happened.
· Ward Baking Company of Chicago, Illinois opened the first completely automated bread plant in the U.S. Untouched by human hands.
· Cellophane was invented by Jacques Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist 2) In 1859 George Gilman and his partner George Huntington Hartford invented a new retailing idea, and opened their first store in New York City. 52 years later (1912) they had 400 stores, when George Hartford's son John had an even more radical idea for their stores. Within 5 years they had over 3,000 stores, and had revolutionized America's food habits.
3 questions: What was the first idea of the 2 Georges in 1859?
What was the idea of Hartford's son John?
Finally, what is the name of the company? 3) When were electric refrigerators were first sold to American housewives and how much they cost? 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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