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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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DECEMBER is:

• Grain of the Month: Buckwheat
  [Whole Grains Council]
  · Buckwheat Trivia & Facts

• National Egg Nog Month
  · Eggnog Trivia & Facts
  · Egg Nog Recipes

• National Fruit Cake Month
  · Holiday Fruit Cake Recipe
  · Fruitcake Trivia

• Root Vegetables Month
  · Root Vegetable Articles

• National Pear Month: Many fruits are out of season during the winter months. Pears are available fresh during this time.
  · Pear Trivia  ---  · Pear Quotes

•  [Worldwide Food Service Safety Month] created in 1994 by the National Restaurant Association.

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DID YOU KNOW?

In 1931 the Coca-Cola Company commissioned artist Haddon Sundblom to show Santa drinking a Coke to encourage sales in the winter months. From 1931 to 1964 these annual ads became a Christmas tradition, and helped to reinforce the modern American image of Santa Claus (which had been forming since the early 1900s): a rotund, jolly and bearded man, dressed in a red outfit trimmed in white fur with a broad black belt and black boots.

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Daily Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“Be content that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.”
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
 

FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:

• National Noodle-Ring Day

• St. Gentian's Day, patron of innkeepers.
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

1686 Prince Louis II de Condé, known as the Great Condé, died.  He was a French general who loved to hunt and had a passion for rice.  Several dishes have been named for him, including Consommé Condé and Creme Condé.

1844 Nitrous oxide used in first successful surgical operation under anaesthetic. In Harford, Connecticut Dr. John M. Riggs extracted a tooth from fellow dentist Dr. Horace Wells.

1874 James Lewis Kraft was born.  Founder of Kraft Co. a wholesale cheese distributor and producer.  In 1916 he patented pasteurized process cheese, a low cost cheese that would not spoil.  Not a great hit with the public, but the U.S. army purchased over 6 million tins of it during WW I.  During the depression, it became popular because of its low cost.
(Kraft Co. Trivia)

1889 Walter Knott was born (died Dec 3, 1981). Co-founder, with his wife Cordellia, of Knott's Berry Farm in California. Their farm evolved from growing and selling berries from a roadside stand into the oldest and one of the largest theme amusement parks in the U.S.

1916 In Canada, Saskatchewan votes to abolish liquor stores.

1919 The citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields but forced residents to end their dependence on cotton and to pursue mixed farming and manufacturing.  (Alabama Food Trivia)

1940 David Gates of the music group 'Bread' was born

1946 UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) was established.

1952 Sir William Cecil Dampier died (born Dec 27, 1867).  British scientist, he developed a method to extract lactose (milk sugar) from whey.
(A Story of Curds & Whey)

1969 Sergei Mikhailkov, the secretary of the Moscow writer's union declares that nudity in the popular play ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ is a sign of decadence in Western culture.

1997 The Kyoto Protocol was adopted by more than 150 countries at the global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to take steps to control greenhouse gas emissions.

2009 The movie 'The Slammin' Salmon' premiered in the U.S. The owner of a Miami restaurant owing money to the mob, holds a contest to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night.

2018 A spill from a chocolate storage tank at the DreiMeister chocolate factory in Westönnen, Germany closed a local street.  Firefighters using shovels, hot water and blowtorches cleared the street of the estimated one ton of chocolate.
 

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A FEW FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS
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December 1-31, 2024  Annual Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth - Portsmouth, New Hampshire

December 1-31, 2024  54th Annual Christmas in Newport - Newport, Rhode Island

December 7-8 & 14-15, 2024  Holiday Fineries at the Wineries - New Paltz, New York

December 10-23, 2024  The Bracebridge Dinner
Yosemite National Park, California

December 13-15, 2024 - 55th Annual 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair - Tucson, Arizona

December 14, 2024  63rd Annual Christmas Boat Parade - Clear Lake, Texas

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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?
· Ball Brothers Glass Mfg Co began producing fruit jars.
· William H. Fruen of Minneapolis, Minnesota was granted a U.S patent for the first coin-operated, automatic, vending machine to dispense liquids.
· Quaker Oats in cardboard canisters becomes one of the first food commodities to be sold in packages .
· Chinese farmworkers make up half of California's agricultural labor force.

2) What movie used chocolate syrup for blood in a famous shower scene?

3) The reddish orange flesh of this tropical plant root has been used in cooking since 600 B.C. It is native to the Orient and now can be found in India and the Caribbean. It was used in biblical times as a perfume but now it is commonly used to flavor and color food. The root is typically boiled or steamed and then dried and ground into a powder. 
Name this plant.

4) The Mango is the most popular fruit world wide, but do you know what fruit is grown on more acreage than any other?

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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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· Ham Trivia
· Goose Recipes
· Goose Trivia
· Turkey Tips
· Turkey Quotes
· Sweet Potato Tips
· Cranberry Trivia
· Cranberry Tips

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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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DID YOU KNOW?

An advertisement in 1910 for Ivory Soap showed a child waiting for Santa Claus in front of a fireplace with a bowl of water, a towel and a bar of Ivory soap so Santa could wash up after coming down the sooty chimney.

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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?

Pastel-colored little candy disks called NECCO wafers first appear in 1902, named for the acronym of the New England Confectionery Company.

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