Thursday, October 17, 2024Daily 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 HISTORY1671 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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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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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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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