Saturday, August 22, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.”
William Norwich
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Pecan Torte Day (Pecan Trivia & Facts) • [Antique Tractor Preservation Day] • National Bao Day (Chinese: Bao is a steamed bun with a sweet or savory filling). • National Eat A Peach Day [Calif. Cling Peach Board]
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1647 Denis Papin is born (died c. 1712). The French physicist who invented the pressure cooker (Papin's Digester) in 1679. 1865 William Sheppard of New York City received the first U.S. patent for liquid soap (patent No. 49,561). 1867 Charles Francis Jenkins was born (died June 5, 1934). An inventor who is best known as an early television pioneer. Among his many inventions was a cone-shaped drinking cup. 1867 Maximilian Bircher-Benner was born. He was a Swiss doctor who developed the cereal product 'Muesli,' which is similar to Granola.
(Traditional Muesli Recipe) 1911 Ole Evinrude, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin received a patent for an outboard motor for boats. 1939 The first U.S. patent (No. 2,170,531) was issued for a disposable whipped cream aerosol container. Julius S. Kahn's patent was titled "An Apparatus for Mixing a Liquid with a Gas" and was specifically concerned with making whipped cream, using a ordinary soda bottle.
(Whipping Cream Kitchen Tips) 1950 Hormel registered the "Spam" trademark (first used in 1937) for its canned meat product.
(Spam Trivia and Facts) 1965 Ellen Church died (born Sept 22, 1904). The first airline stewardess. (See May 15, 1930) 1970 Giada De Laurentiis was born in Italy. American chef, cookbook author and TV cooking show host ('Everyday Italian', 'Giada At Home', etc.) 1970 'Spill The Wine' by Eric Burdon & War hit number 3 on the charts. 2004 Sonya Thomas won $500 and a trophy belt at the World Lobster Eating Contest in Kennebunkport, Maine. She ate 9.76 pounds of lobster meat (38 lobsters) in 12 minutes. She also has set records for eating hard boiled eggs, and pork & beans (8.4 pounds in 2 minutes 47 seconds). She weighs only 105 pounds. 2007 A 12 year-old boy in Manchester, England was charged with assault for throwing a cocktail sausage at a 74 year-old man.
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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 U.S. population passes 200 million.
· There are an estimated 3.2 million farms in the U.S.
· Gatorade, the original sports drink, is developed by the University of Florida.
· Wisconsin is the last state to allow yellow coloring in margarine. 2) Irma Von Starkloff Rombauer, who was she and what did she do? 3) This food is pictured on tombs from ancient Egypt, and has been found in ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pliny listed it as a cure for 60 different illnesses. In 1st century India it was used to prevent heart disease. In Shakespearean England, it was prized as an aphrodisiac. The English name for it comes from the Anglo-Saxon for 'spear plant,' and the Latin word comes from the Celtic word meaning 'hot.'
What is it? 4) This tree and its fruit are native to the Peruvian Andes, but are widely cultivated as a commercial crop in New Zealand, where most of the U.S. supply originates. When it did not sell well under its original name, New Zealanders invented its current name in 1966.
a) kiwi. b) tamarillo. c) uglifruit.
d) gooseberry. e) pumello.
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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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