Tuesday, November 4, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.”
Laurie Colwin, 'Home Cooking' (1988)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Candy Day (Candy Trivia & Facts) • St. Charles Borromeo, patron of apple orchards. • National Fig Week (Nov 1-7) (Fig Trivia & Facts)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1841 John Bartleson and John Bidwell arrived in California with the first wagon train. They left from Independence, Missouri on May 1, 1841 with 69 adults and several children. 1873 Anthony Iske of Lancaster, Pennsylvania was issued U.S. patent No. 144,206 for a meat slicing machine. It worked much like a mandoline, with a frame to hold the meat while sliding it against the blade. 1879 James and John Ritty invented the first cash register. They came up with the idea to prevent bartenders from stealing at the Pony House Restaurant in Dayton, Ohio. 1879 African-American inventor, Thomas Elkins received U.S. patent No. 221,222 for a refrigerating machine, which could be used to cool food (or even human corpses according to the patent application). He also received patents for a combined dining/ironing table and a commode.
(Refrigerator Trivia) 1879 Thomas Edison applied for a patent for electric lamps giving light by incandescence. (Patent No. 223,898, granted Jan 27, 1880). 1916 Ruth Handler was born (died April 27, 2002). Creator of the Barbie Doll (1959) and co-founder of the Mattel company in 1942. 1922 The entrance to the tomb of King Tutankhamen was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. 1923 Alfred Heineken was born. Grandson of Gerard Adriaan Heineken, the founder of Heineken Brewery. He was president of the company from 1964 to 1989. 1940 Eggs and cake are rationed in the Netherlands. 1959 Alberta, Canada bans trading stamps and similar sales promotional items. 1993 Elton John was awarded $518,700 from the Sunday Mirror for false allegations that he was hooked on a bizarre diet in which he spat out food without swallowing it. 2005 The animated movie 'Chicken Little' premiered.
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** October 30-Nov 16, 2025 119th Edition of the State Fair of Louisiana - Shreveport, Louisiana October 31-Nov 9, 2025 National Peanut Festival
Dothan, Alabama November 1-8, 2025 - 52nd Annual Vardaman Sweet Potato Festival - Vardaman, Mississippi November 1-9, 2025 San Francisco Restaurant Week
San Francisco, California November 5-9, 2025 - American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Kansas City, Missouri November 7-8, 2025 - 68th Annual Urbanna Oyster Festival - Urbanna, Virginia November 7-16, 2025 Wurstfest
New Braunfels, Texas (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?
· Proctor & Gamble is founded by William Procter and James Gamble, making, soap and candles.
· Chicago was incorporated as a city.
· John Lea and William Perrins of Worcester, England started manufacturing Worcester Sauce (Worcestershire).
· Riots in New York over high price of flour.
· Tetley Tea is introduced in England when Joseph and Edward Tetley open 'Tetley Brothers - Dealers in Tea. 2) This nut is still harvested mostly from the wild, although there are a few commercial plantations in its native area (attempts to cultivate it elsewhere have been mostly unsuccessful). The trees (Bertholletia excelsa) grow to a typical 150 feet high, and the 'fruit' that contains the nuts weigh 5 pounds each! Gathering them when they fall to the ground can be dangerous, so harvesters carry shields to protect themselves. There are 8 to 30 nuts inside the hard coconut-like 'fruit', and an axe must be used to open it. The nuts have a high oil content of about 65% by weight. 3) When and where were the first practical vending machines used in the U.S., and what did they vend? 4) When did the first soft-drink vending machines appear? 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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