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Chef James

“The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.”
 
Fernand Point, 1941

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October Food Holidays:

For Details, History and more DAY, WEEK and MONTH Food Holiday designations, including LINKS to Holiday Origins and Additional Information:
SEE Detailed OCTOBER Food Calendar

OCTOBER is:

• Fair Trade Month

• Grain of the Month: Corn

• National Cranberry Month

• National Apple Month

• National Applejack Month

• National Caramel Month

• National Chili Month

• National Cookbook Month

• National Cookie Month

• National Country Ham Month

• National Dessert Month

• National Eat Better; Eat Together Month

• National Farm to School Month

• National Kitchen and Bath Month

• National Pasta Month

• National Pickled Peppers Month

• National Pizza Month

• National Popcorn Poppin' Month

• National Pork Month

• National Pretzel Month

• National Seafood Month

• National Spinach-Lovers' Month

• National Toilet Tank Repair Month

• New Zealand Cheese Month

• Non-GMO Month

• Squirrel Awareness Month

• Vegetarian Awareness Month

• UK: Seed Gathering Season
  (Sept 22-Oct 22, 2024)
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

Cheese takes up about 1/10 the volume of the milk it was made from.

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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Daily Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.”   Jacques Pepin
 

FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:

• National Pasta Day  (Pasta Trivia  |  Pasta Recipes)
  (Pasta Cooking Tips)

• St. Richard Gwyn, patron of large families.

• National School Lunch Week (Oct 14-18, 2024)
  [School Nutrition Association]

• UK: [Coffee Week] (October 14-20, 2024) The nation’s largest celebration of coffee, all for a good cause.

• UK: National Baking Week (always Oct 14-20)

• UK: Seed Gathering Season (Sept 22-Oct 22, 2024)
[The Tree Council]  Gather seeds, fruits and nuts which can be nurtured to grow the trees of the future.
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

1671 The first auction of furs from Hudson Bay took place at Garroway's Coffee House in London, England.

1814 At the Horseshoe Brewery in London the metal bands on a huge beer brewing vat snapped and a tidal wave of 3,555 barrels of Porter beer crashed through the brewery walls, destroying several tenements, and killing 8 people.
(See also The Molasses Flood, Jan 15, 1919)

1937 Donald Duck's three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, first appeared in the newspaper comic strip.

1946 Jim Tucker of the music group 'The Turtles' was born.

1963 'Sugar Shack' by Jimmy Gilmer & Fireballs is #1 on the charts.

1977 The Guinness Book of World Records notes that Peter Dowdeswell managed to eat 40 sandwiches in 17 minutes, 53.9 seconds at a California donut shop on October 17, 1977. Each sandwich was 6 X 3 inches, spread with jam and butter.

2000 'Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water' Limp Bizkit's 3rd studio album was released. and debuted at number 1 on the charts.

2006 The U.S. population reached 300 million.

2008 'The Secret Life of Bees' opened in U.S. theatres

2020 To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Iceland Foods Ltd., a British supermarket chain headquarted in Wales, sent a chicken nugget into space.  In a gas-filled weather balloon, the nugget traveled through the Earth’s atmosphere to an altitude of 110,000 feet.
 

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A FEW FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS
(See All 8,000 Food, Wine & Beer Festivals)

October 16-19, 2024  Circleville Pumpkin Show
Circleville, Ohio

October 17-20, 2024  87th Annual International Rice Festival - Crowley, Louisiana

October 17-20, 2024  New York City Wine & Food Festival - New York, New York

October 17-27, 2024  North Carolina State Fair
Raleigh, North Carolina

October 18-19, 2024  Sparta Persimmon Days Festival
Sparta, Missouri

October 18-19, 2024  87th Annual Klamath Basin Potato Festival - Merrill, Oregon

(SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
 

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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ    (new DAILY questions)

1) All of the following events took place in the same year.  What year is it?
· The population of the U.S. is now 31,443,321. Farmers are 58% of the labor force.
· The U.S. has about 30,000 miles of railroad tracks.
· The August Schell Brewing Company, New Ulm, Minnesota was founded.
· Louis Pasteur invented the process of pasteurization
· George A. Hormel was born. Founder of meat packing company, George A. Hormel & Co.

2) Until the final years of the 19th century this was a wild perennial vine that grew in rampant profusion of the hills and mountains of southwest China. In the autumn when the fruits were ripe, Chinese peasants went to the hills in droves to pick vast quantities for eating and selling in markets. They had done so since time immemorial. There was never any need to farm the vigorous vine, which clambers up to 28 feet of over hillside shrubs and trees at will and grows vast quantities of fruits. But its status changed for ever in 1899 when an English planthunter, Ernest Henry 'Chinese' Wilson, came to China and began sending seeds home to Chelsea, England.  It became popular with gardeners as an ornamental vine. In 1904 the first seeds were sent to another colony of Britain, and by the 1930s the world's first commercial orchard was established there. When it was renamed in 1959, the fruit was on its way to to world wide popularity. Annual world production is now about 4.5 million tonnes.
Name this fruit, its old name and its new name.

3) A canape is a cracker or small slice of bread or toast cut in various shapes and garnished with savory foods such as cheese, meat, etc.  What connection does 'canape' have with mosquitos?

Click Here for Quiz Answers
 

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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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DID YOU KNOW?

The endosperm (the inner kernel) of durum wheat is called 'semolina' - ground semolina (flour) is used to make the best quality Italian pasta.  It has a rich yellow color.

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A FOOD LIFE

"There are those who say that a life devoted to food -- cooking it, eating it, writing about it, even dreaming about it -- is a frivolous life, an indulgent life.  I would disagree.  If we do not care what we eat, we do not care for ourselves, and if we do not care for ourselves, how can we care for others?"
Fictional cookery writer Hilary Small, in episode 6, series 2 of 'Pie In the Sky'

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Classic Fish and Seafood Recipes
 

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DID YOU KNOW?

According to a survey by the National Pasta Association, 77% of Americans surveyed eat pasta at least once a week, and 1/3 eat pasta 3 or more times a week.
 

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IN SEASON FOR AUTUMN

VEGETABLES
(Recipes  --  Tips)
Beets
Bell Peppers
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Collard Greens
Cranberries
Green Beans
Kale
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Onions
Parsnips
Peas
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Radishes
Rutabagas
Spinach
Sweet Potatoes & Yams
Swiss Chard
Turnips
Winter Squash

FRUITS (Tips)
Apples
Bananas
Grapes
Kiwifruit
Lemons & Limes
Mangos
Pears
Pineapples
Pomegranates
Raspberries

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DID YOU KNOW?

Goat meat is the most popular red meat in the world, and goats milk the most popular milk source.

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