Thursday, September 10, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Never accept a drink from a urologist.”
Erma Bombeck
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS: National TV Dinner Day: The actual date that Swanson introduced TV dinners is in dispute. Either Sept 10, 1953 or April 6, 1954 see April 6 for details.
(TV Dinners, Who was first?) Port Wine Day: the date on which the first demarcated region in the world was created – [the Douro], in 1756 by the Marquκs de Pombal.
(see also January 27) St. Theodard's Day, patron of cattle keepers. National Waffle Week (Sept 7-13, 2026)
(Waffle Recipes) UK: [Zero Waste Week] (Sept 7-11, 2026)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1713 John Turberville Needham was born (died Dec 30, 1781). An English naturalist, he believed in the spontaneous generation of life. He boiled some mutton broth, sealed it in glass containers and when he found living organisms present after a few days, he believed they came from nonliving matter. He was wrong - boiling does not destroy all bacterial and fungal spores. 1823 The 60 mile Champlain Canal opened in New York state, connecting Lake Champlain to the Hudson River in New York. (New York Food Trivia) 1846 Elias Howe Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts received the first U.S. patent (# 4,750) for a lock-stitch sewing machine. 1855 Robert Koldewey was born (died Feb 4, 1925). A German archaeologist who discovered and confirmed the existence and location of the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon (excavations 1899-1917). 1859 Thomas Nuttall died. An English naturalist and botanist, he collected and studied plants around the Chesapeake Bay area in the U.S. 1898 Waldo Lonsbury Semon was born. Semon was an American Inventor who is credited with the invention of Vinyl. Vinyl is the 2nd most used plastic in the world. Semon held over 100 patents. 1913 The official route of the Lincoln Highway was announced. It was the first coast to coast highway, running from New York to San Francisco. 1935 ‘Popeye the Sailor,’ about a spinach-loving sailor, debuted on the NBC Red radio network, sponsored by Wheatena breakfast cereal.
(Spinach Trivia and Facts -- Spinach Recipes) 1949 Barriemore Barlow of the music group 'Jethro Tull' was born. 1953 National TV Dinner Day (The actual date that Swanson introduced TV dinners is in dispute. Either Sept 10, 1953 or April 6, 1954). 2001 The first case of mad-cow disease in Asian animals was reported in a dairy cow in Japan. 2020 Swarms of mosquitoes killed cows, deer, horses and other livestock in Louisiana after rain from Hurricane Laura led to an explosion of the mosquito population. 2023 In the Portuguese town of Levira two vats holding about 2.2m litres of wine at a local distillery burst and flooded the streets.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** September 9-12, 2026 75th Annual Murphysboro Apple Festival - Murphysboro, Illinois September 10-11, 2026 Tipton County Pork Festival
Tipton, Indiana September 10-12, 2026 Marion Popcorn Festival
Marion, Ohio September 10-13, 2026 - Atlanta Food & Wine Festival - Atlanta, Georgia September 10-20, 2026 New Mexico State Fair
Albuquerque, New Mexico September 11-13, 2026 48th Annual Norwalk Oyster Festival - Norwalk, Connecticut September 11-13, 2026 80th Annual Kellogg Watermelon Festival - Kellogg, Minnesota (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) The following events took place in the same year.
What year is it?
· In England, Henderson William Brand begins manufacturing A1 Steak Sauce.
· The first full cargo of bananas arives in New York on the schooner 'Harriet Smith.'
· The first known recipe for tomato ketchup appears in 'The New England Farmer'.
· The population of the U.S. is now 12,866,020. The frontier boundary is the Mississippi River. 2) In 1899, Amedeo Obici, age 12, arrived in America from Italy, with no money and no knowledge of the English language, but he knew he had an uncle somewhere in Pennsylvania. He found his uncle, and worked at his fruit stand. In 1906 at age 19, he starts his own business in partnership with his future brother-in-law Mario Peruzzi. By 1912 the business has grown so rapidly that he is buying directly from farmers and opens his own processing plant. The company's "trademark" and "spokes-person" was chosen in a contest conducted at a Suffolk, Virginia high school in 1916.
Can you guess the very well known product and "spokes-person"?
a) Planters Nuts & Mr. Peanut.
b) Cakes and Sarah Lee
c) Pancake Syrup and Mrs. Butterworth
d) Tomato Sauce and Chef Boyardee
e) Milk and Elsie the Cow 3) This Italian skim milk cheese dates back to at least the 13th century and may date even to the 11th century. It is made only from April 1 through November 11 each year with milk from cows that have been feeding on fresh pasture. Most of the cream is skimmed from the milk which is then cooked in copper containers, pressed in cheesecloth lined molds, salted in brine and then allowed to mature.
Name this cheese. 4) This herb, Salvia sclarea is a relative of sage, but is no longer commonly used as a culinary herb. Previously it's leaves were used in soups and omelets, and the leaves and flowers in salads. The leaves were also used to flavor ale and beer (sometimes as a hops substitute), and to flavor wines and liqueurs. It imparts a muscatel flavor to wine, hence it's German name, Muskateller Salbei. It is one of the herbs used in Italian Vermouth.
Can you name this herb?
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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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