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THE FOOD REFERENCE NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 30, 2002 Vol 3 #31 ISSN 1535-5659
IN THIS ISSUE
=> Website News
=> Quotes and Trivia
=> Website of the Week
=> Food Trivia Quiz
=> Readers questions
=> Ancient & Classic Recipes
=> This Weeks Calendar
=> Did you know?
=> Who's Who in the Culinary Arts
=> Requested Recipes
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
=> General information and Copyright
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QUOTE
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"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
Adelle Davis (1904-1974)
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TRIVIA
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Some of the foods native to the Americas and used by the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish arrival were chocolate, vanilla, corn, chilies (peppers), peanuts, tomatoes, avocados, squash, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pineapple and papaya. The influence of these foods on world cuisine is staggering. Just eliminate all of them from almost any cuisine in the world to imagine the effect.
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The Food and Recipes pages of Nativetech
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FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ
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READERS QUESTIONS
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QUESTION: Hi Chef,
Do you have any recipes for Atamoya fruit ? Do you have a description of what kind of fruit it is besides tropical ? What fruit family is it close to ? Darlene
ANSWER: The atemoya is a cross between a cherimoya and a sweetsop. It has cream colored, custardy pulp that is rich, sweet and with dark, slippery seeds (like watermelon seeds). The taste is described as like vanilla custard with a hint of mango. They are gray/green with a tough bumpy skin.
The family is the Annona or custard apple family. Other fruits in the family are cherimoya and sweetsop (sugar apple) as mentioned, and the custard apple and guanabana.
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TRIVIA
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The Chinese have been 'farming' fish since the Tang Dynasty around 900 A.D. The fish were raised exclusively for the emperor's consumption. Today China farms more freshwater fish than any other country.
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ANCIENT & CLASSIC RECIPES
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American Cookery by Amelia Simmons (1796)
CHOUDER
Take a bass weighing four pounds, boil half an hour; take six slices raw salt pork, fry them till the lard is nearly extracted, one dozen crackers soaked in cold water five minutes; put the bass into the lard, also the pieces of pork and crackers, cover close, and fry for 20 minutes; serve with potatoes, pickles, apples-sauce or mangoes; garnish with green parsley.
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QUOTE
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"Zen. . . does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
Alan W. Watts (1915-1973), The Way of Zen, 1957
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TRIVIA
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The saguaro cactus blossom is the official state flower of Arizona. The white, funnel shaped, night blooming flowers, grow on the trunk and branches of the saguaro cactus during May and June. The red fruits of this largest American cactus are edible.
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THIS WEEKS CALENDAR
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(Check the website daily for additional calendar entries)
AUGUST 30
1812 Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa was born. He imported 1,400 varieties of grapevines to California in 1862 and planted the first large vineyard in California in the Sonoma Valley. After the devastating blight destroyed much of Europe's vineyards, some of these same vines, now on resistant root stock, helped rescue the French and German wine industries.
AUGUST 31
1742 A plague of grasshoppers destroyed crops in Pennsylvania.
SEPTEMBER 1
1848 Auguste-Henri Forel was born. The next time you are on a picnic and become overtaken by ants, think of Forel. If you would like to know about ants, find a copy of his 5 volume 'The Social World of the Ants.'
SEPTEMBER 2
1666 The Great Fire of London began in the shop of the King's baker. After burning for four days, more than 13,000 buildings had been destroyed.
SEPTEMBER 3
1912 The first cannery opened in England. It was to supply food to the Royal Navy.
SEPTEMBER 4
1920 Craig Claiborne, food writer and critic, was born.
SEPTEMBER 5
1643 Louis XIV, King of France (the 'Sun King') was born. A gourmet, gourmand and many say a glutton. During his reign food began to be served in courses, rather than placed on the table all at once, and forks came into widespread use.
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DID YOU KNOW?
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There has been one vegetarian astronaut. Timothy J. (TJ) Creamer (Lieutenant Colonel, USA) NASA Astronaut (Mission Specialist Candidate)
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WHO'S WHO IN THE CULINARY ARTS
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George Washington Carver (1864-1943).
American botanist, educator and agricultural chemist and innovator. He developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. He established the George Washington Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, for agricultural research.
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RECIPE REQUESTS FROM READERS
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I'm looking for an old fashioned recipe for candied pumpkin. Can you help?
from La Cuisine Creole, by Lafcadio Hearn (1885)
Candied Pumpkin
Peel a piece of pumpkin, and cut it in thin slices. Make a nice, thick syrup of brown sugar and water, and put the pumpkin into it, with a little of the juice of the lemon. boil this until the pumpkin is nicely candied. Mace, or other spices, may be used for flavoring instead of lemon, if preferred. it may be eaten hot with meats at dinner, and is equally nice, when cold, for supper or lunch.
Email your recipe requests, food info or history
questions to me at james@foodreference.com
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TRIVIA
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In a survey conducted in 1951 of the U.S. armed services, banana cream pie was the favorite dessert. Rice pudding was the least liked.
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QUOTE
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"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
Albert Einstein
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TRIVIA
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The average American eats more than 15 pounds of beans each year.
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QUOTE
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
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