Monday, October 5, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.” Jeff Smith (the Frugal Gourmet)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Apple Betty Day
(Apple Brown Betty Recipe --- Betty Trivia) • Health Care Food Service Workers Week (October 4-10, 2026) [Assoc. for Healthcare Foodservice] • National 4-H Week (Oct 4-10, 2026) [4-h.org] • UK: [National Curry Week] (Oct 5-11, 2026) Celebrate over 200 years of Indian restaurants in the UK. • UK: National Vegetarian Week (Oct 1-7, 2026)
[The Vegetarian Society] (Vegetarian Trivia)
(Vegetarian Quotes --- Vegetarian Recipes) • UK: Seed Gathering Season (Sept 21-Oct 21, 2026)
[The Tree Council] Gather seeds, fruits and nuts which can be nurtured to grow the trees of the future.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1582 If you lived in Italy and many other Catholic countries, this day and the next 10 days did not exist due to the Gregorian Calendar Adjustment (it corrected an accumulated 11 day discrepancy). The day following Thursday, October 4, 1582 was Friday, October 15, 1582. It was effective in most Catholic countries. The old Julian calendar continued in use in Britain and its colonies until 1752, in Japan until 1873, in China until 1912, in Russia until 1918, in Greece until 1923, and in Turkey until 1925. 1902 Ray Kroc is born in Oak Park, Illinois (died Jan 14, 1984). Ray Kroc sold blenders for milkshakes, and one of his customers was a restaurant in San Bernardino, California owned by Maurice and Richard McDonald. Kroc set up a chain of drive-in restaurants based on their efficient assembly line production kitchen. He opened his first restaurant on April 15, 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois. By 1961 he had 228 restaurants and he bought out the McDonald brothers. When he died in 1984 there were over 7,500 McDonald's restaurants.
(McDonald’s Facts & Trivia --- Hamburger Quotes) 1947 President Harry Truman became the first U.S. president to address the nation on television. He called on farmers and distillers to cut grain consumption to help Europeans who were still recovering from WW II and suffering from famine. Truman asked the public to not eat meat on Tuesdays and forego eggs and poultry on Thursdays. 1948 Brian Connolly of the music group 'Sweet' was born 1961 The film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's premieres in New York City. 1983 Earl Silas Tupper died (born July 28, 1907). The inventor of Tupperware. (Tupperware makes the containers used to conduct mold and bacterial experiments in the back of refrigerator shelves). 2007 One week after recalling almost 22 million pounds of ground beef products, Topps Meat Company announced it was going out of business. Topps had to recall the meat after samples tested positive for E. coli bacteria, and at least 30 people had become ill since July. Topps was one of the country's largest manufacturers of frozen hamburgers. 2011 Friendly Ice Cream restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy. 2012 The film 'Butter' about a young girl with a talent for butter carving, opened in the U.S. and Canada. (Butter Trivia & Facts --- Butter Quotes)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** October 1-11, 2026 - Tulsa State Fair
Tulsa, Oklahoma October 1-November 1, 2026 Arizona State Fair
Phoenix, Arizona October 6-10, 2026 82nd Annual Floresville Peanut Festival - Floresville, Texas October 8-11, 2026 53rd Annual National Shrimp Festival - Gulf Shores, Alabama October 8-18, 2026 Mississippi State Fair
Jackson, Mississippi October 9-11, 2026 54th Annual Cuero Turkeyfest
Cuero, Texas October 10-11, 2026 36th World Championship Gumbo Cook-Off - New Iberia, Louisiana (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) All of the following events took place in the same year. What year is it?
· The Arizona Territory was created.
· There were 2,004 breweries in the United States producing about 2 million barrels of beer.
· Granula, probably the first breakfast cereal is introduced.
· Gerard A. Heineken bought an Amsterdam brewery, which dated back to 1592. The beginning of Heineken beer.
· The world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway, officially opened.
· Thanksgiving was first celebrated as a regular American Holiday. 2) What well known cocktail takes its name from iron mines in Cuba? 3) What was the first ready to eat cereal? 4) What percentage of all the French fries sold in the U.S. is sold by McDonald's?
a) 10%. b) 15%. c) 25%. d) 33%. e) 50%. 5) What determines the color of an egg shell? 6) What determines the color of the egg yolk?
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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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