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THE FOOD REFERENCE NEWSLETTER
Food History, Trivia, Quotes, Humor, Poetry, Recipes
August 12, 2001 Vol 2 # 31 ISSN 1535-5659
James T. Ehler, Editor, james@foodreference.com
http://www.foodreference.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> Sponsorship Notice
=> Quotes and Trivia
=> Website News
=> Ancient & Classic Recipes
=> Food Trivia Question: What Am I?
=> This Weeks Calendar
=> Did you know?
=> Answer to Food Trivia Question
=> Culinary Crossword Puzzle
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
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QUOTE
"My fare is really sumptuous this evening; buffaloe's humps,
tongues and marrowbones, fine trout parched meal pepper and
salt, and a good appetite; the last is not considered the least
of the luxuries."
From the journals of Lewis and Clark, Thursday, June 13, 1805
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WEBSITE NEWS http://www.foodreference.com
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Daily Trivia and other interesting food items.
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TRIVIA
The first and simplest of all pumpkin puddings made by the
Pilgrims, involved picking the pumpkin, washing it, hollowing
it out, filling it with cream or milk, and baking it whole.
This is what developed into pumpkin pie about 50 years after
that first Thanksgiving.
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ANCIENT & CLASSIC RECIPES
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Capons in Castles, Diuersa Seruisa (1380)
"Take capons and . . . open the skin at the head and blow them
till the skin rise from the flesh, and remove the skin whole.
Boil chicken meat, egg yolks, and spices, and make a stuffing,
and fill the skin and parboil it, and put it on a spit and
roast it, basting it with egg yolks.
Take the capon's body and lard it, and roast it, and take
almond milk and wheat starch and make a batter, and baste the
roasting body, and serve it."
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QUOTE
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon
or not at all."
Harriet Van Horne
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TRIVIA
Quince must be cooked before eating, and is primarily used for
preserves. native to the Middle East, it is one of the
candidates as the apple in Biblical references.
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FOOD TRIVIA QUESTION: WHAT AM I?
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QUOTE
"Do not stuff too large mouthfuls in both cheeks. Do not keep
your hand to long in the platter and put it in only when the
other has withdrawn his hand from the dish."
The Fifty Courtesies of the Table (1480)
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TRIVIA
The French consume 40,000 metric tons of snails each year.
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QUOTE (Also on the website as Saturday's quote of the day)
"I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a
little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of
the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."
George Bush, Sr. 1990
Here is a story to go with the quote above, sent in by a friend.
"I was at the White House with the press corps, during part of
the Sr. Bush administration. When Bush arrived on Air Force One
for the initial inspection of the brand new never before used
747 there was a sign posted in the galley with a bunch of
broccoli and a slash through it and a note underneath it saying
'broccoli free zone.'"
Doug from Key West
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GREAT content from chefs around the world.
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THIS WEEKS CALENDAR Check Website Daily for More!!!
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AUGUST 13-17 WEIRD CONTEST WEEK Ocean City, New Jersey
Artistic pie eating; salt water taffy sculpting, French fry
sculpting, animal impersonation, putrid puns, etc.
AUGUST 14-18 GRAPE FESTIVAL, Tontititown, Arkansas
AUGUST 14 Cologne Cathedral completed, it took 632 years
AUGUST 15-16 1969 WOODSTOCK MUSIC FAIR
AUGUST 16-19 SWEET CORN FESTIVAL, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
AUGUST 16 SOUR HERRING PREMIER, Sweden. By ordinance, the year's
supply of sour herring may begin to be sold.
AUGUST 16-19 RIVERFRONT RIBFEST Huntington, West Virginia
AUGUST 17-19 BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL, Machias, Maine
AUGUST 18 WATERMELON DAY, Vining, Minnesota
AUGUST 18 OYSTER FESTIVAL, Milford, Connecticut
AUGUST 18 BLUE CLAW CRAB RACE, Harvey Cedars, New Jersey
AUGUST 19-25 NATIONAL HAWAIIAN SHAVE ICE WEEK, Honolulu, Hawaii
More daily events and birthdays on website each day
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QUOTE
"I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or
so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in
at it every little while."
John Gould
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DID YOU KNOW?
Bloom
When beef is purchased in vacuum packages it appears a dark
reddish purple. When the package is opened the exposure to
oxygen causes the meat to turn bright red, and after a few
days the surface will change to brown.
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RECIPES
Email your recipe requests, food info or history
questions to me at james@foodreference.com
NEW RECIPES added this week, Capons in Castles, Angelica Jam,
preserved Angelica (2), Blackberry Vinegar, Black Currant Wine,
New Orleans Bread Pudding, and Lindy's Cheesecake.
http://www.foodreference.com/html/recipes.html
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QUOTE
"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces -
just good food from fresh ingredients."
Julia Child
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TRIVIA
Tamarind pulp has more sugar and fruit acid per volume than any
other fruit. It is also an ingredient in Worcestershire sauce.
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QUOTE
"Gourmandism seeks out all the courtesies and all the
refinements. It is the only passion that does not leave behind
any remorse, sorrow, or suffering."
Lucien Tendret (1825-1896), great-nephew of Brillat-Savarin
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TRIVIA
In 1939 seedless watermelon was developed by treating the
unpollinated flowers of watermelons with a specific acid, which
resulted in the seedless watermelon.
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CULINARY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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QUOTE
"All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me."
Michael Palin (Monty Python alumnus)
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