Tuesday, December 9, 2025Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Pray, how does your asparagus perform?”
John Adams, in a letter to his wife Abigail
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:•• National Pastry Day (Baking & Pastry Articles) • Lutefisk Day: Reminds residents in Norway, Finland, and Sweden to begin preparing their lutefisk for Christmas. (Lutefisk Facts and Trivia) • National Opal Apple Day [Opal Apples Website] • [National Handwashing Awareness Week]
(Dec 7-13, 2025)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1793 New York City's daily newspaper, 'The American Minerva' was established. 1814 Joseph Bramah died. An English engineer, among his many inventions was a beer engine, used to deliver beer from keg to glass without artificial carbonation being added. (Beer Trivia & Facts)
(Beer Quotes) 1868 Fritz Haber was born (died Jan 29, 1934). German chemist, he developed a method of synthesizing ammonia directly from nitrogen and hydrogen (1909). This led to large-scale commercial production of nitrogen fertilizer. 1886 Clarence Birdseye was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1924, Clarence Birdseye, with the financial backing of Wetmore Hodges, William Gamage, Basset Jones, I.L. Rice and J.J. Barry, organized the General Seafood Corporation. The birth of the frozen food industry. (Birdseye Trivia --- Frozen Food Trivia) 1907 Christmas seals go on sale for the first time. The proceeds went to fight tuberculosis. 1927 'Struttin' With Some Barbecue' was recorded by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. 1935 Lafayette Benedict Mendel died. An American biochemist who published various papers on nutrition. His work on vitamins and proteins helped establish modern standards of nutrition. 1965 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' premiered on CBS TV. 1967 The Cunard lines 1,000 ft, 81,000 ton passenger ship the Queen Mary, launched in 1936, arrived in Long Beach, California to begin its new roll as a museum, hotel and conference center. 1983 White House Counselor (later Attorney General) Edwin Messe says: "I don't know of any authoritative figures that there are hungry children.....We've had considerable evidence that people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it." 1993 On the TV show 'Seinfield,' Kramer came up with the idea to write a coffee table book about coffee tables. 1997 Karl August Folkers died. He was the first to isolate vitamin B12. 2020 Due to the pandemic, the National Restaurant Association estimates that 17% of America’s restaurants have permanently closed so far this year. 110,000 restaurants have already permanently shuttered in 2020, with 10,000 of them closed in the past three months.
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Nov 18, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 National Gingerbread House Competition & Display - Asheville, N. Carolina December 1-31, 2025 55th Annual Christmas in Newport - Newport, Rhode Island December 10, 2025 - Kosher Food and Wine Experience - Miami, Florida December 10-22, 2025 The Bracebridge Dinner
Yosemite National Park, California December 12-14, 2025 Annual Woodstock Winter Wassail Weekend - Woodstock, Vermont December 13, 2025 Hudson Valley Pizza Festival
Poughkeepsie, New York December 13-14, 2025 28th Annual Inn to Inn Holiday Cookie & Candy Tour
Mt. Washington Valley, New Hampshire (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?
· For the first time in modern history, the world is producing more farmed fish than farmed beef.
· Mauritania, in western North Africa, has banned the use of plastic bags to protect the environment.
· The Food Safety Authority of Ireland announced that horse and pig DNA had been found in frozen beef products.
· Canada withdraws the penny from circulation.
· A United Nations reports 1/3 of all the food produced worldwide was going to waste. 2) I am a tall tropical evergreen tree of the mulberry family, native to the Malay Archipelago, and found throughout the South Pacific since prehistoric times. I can grow to a height of 60 feet or more and I am closely related to the jackfruit and the Osage orange.
My round, green, bumpy fruit, 8 to 10 inches in diameter, is rarely eaten raw, but is used cooked as a vegetable. It can be prepared using any of the methods used for potatoes (baked, roasted, fried, mashed, stuffed, etc). Most people agree that my fruit is both an acquired taste and texture. It is considered a staple food in many of the Pacific islands.
Cloth is made from my bark, and canoes and furniture from my wood. The milky juice that flows when my stem is cut, is used for glue and to waterproof canoes. What am I? 3) If you walked into a classic lunch counter or diner and said: "Squeeze a full house seaboard" what would you get? 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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